Chapter Ninety-Nine, Political Commissar Guo's Iron Ambition (I)

Fantasy world, south of the continent of Falmat, three hundred kilometers east of the Arnous hills, the southwest shore of the [Blue Sea], Torch Harbor

Before the first Chinese travelers arrived here and laid the first foundation stones, this natural harbor with excellent hydrological conditions was just a desolate, barren and inaccessible barren land, which had been sleeping in the wilderness for thousands of years, with little attention and no trace of villages and towns.

Although it was located on the border between the Empire and the Elbe, and not far from the bustling imperial capital, two towering, steep and impassable mountains, one south and one north, plunged into the sea, separating it from the hinterland of the empire and the Elbe, making it difficult for travelers on land to reach it. There is also little interest from seafarers – although it has excellent sheltered bays, there is a great lack of fresh water on land along the coast. It's not dry enough to be desert, but it's not much better: there are no rivers to drink or irrigate, just bare rocky mountains and endless saline fields, dotted with drab clusters of grey-green groves, and nothing to attract them. The few lakes that are the only ones are salt lakes with a lot of soda in their water, which tastes bitter and salty, and is poisonous, making people feel hopeless when they look at it.

But all around this desperate land are rich countryside with lush vegetation and abundant grains. In addition, due to frequent wars and slow population growth, there is still a lot of land in good condition that has not yet been cultivated. Naturally, no one wants to ask for hardship, and leave it in a good place elsewhere, but come to this ghost place where even weeds don't grow, and endure the scorching sun, frosty nights, and bitter salt water.

However, with the arrival of the Chinese, the land was soon turned upside down – although this arid saline land by the sea, which seemed almost worthless to the indigenous people of Falmat, was the closest outlet to the sea from the Arnous hills. For the Chinese who once missed the Age of Discovery, so much so that they have suffered enough in modern times, this natural port must be won no matter what.

As for the harsh natural conditions, it is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Chinese traversers - with their powerful engineering capabilities, the Chinese traversers dug a canal nearly 100 kilometers long in a very short time, attracting clear and sweet alpine snow water from the Romanian mountains, so that this land that had been thirsty for many years was quickly rejuvenated. In addition, the Navy's engineering units blew up reefs that prevented ships from docking, cleared the near-shore waterways, and leveled large areas of flat land between the rocky hills of the rugged seashore for cities and roads.

After three years of construction, a spectacular port city has taken shape in this once barren land. On the outskirts of the city, with the help of irrigation canals and agricultural machinery, the diligent traversers have cultivated vast expanses of flat and open farmland for growing barley, wheat, oats, corn and soybeans. In the more carefully managed gardens, grapes, pomegranates, onions, cabbage, celery, potatoes and tomatoes are grown, and new varieties of seawater rice are planted on an experimental basis on the saline tidal flats.

In addition to the initial self-sufficiency of agriculture, the construction of industry is a top priority. Although this land was previously arid and barren, it has large reserves of high-quality iron ore, coal and oil, but there are many similar minerals on the resource-rich continent of Falmat

For some reason, the authorities have created a system of small-scale industries that can be recycled by themselves, as the basis for all construction, and in the terminology of the economic department, they are called the "five small local industries", that is, small coal mines, small steel plants, small machinery factories, small fertilizer factories and small cement factories. With these five small-scale industrial projects, the basic production needs of an area of one million people can be initially met. For example, a small fertilizer plant that uses coal as a raw material, even if it uses relatively backward crude technology to facilitate maintenance and reduce supporting facilities, can produce 50,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer per year with synthetic ammonia technology, which is enough to meet the current agricultural needs of the entire Arnoos municipal district. Then, on this basis, the departments concerned will also organize the construction of small power plants, small textile factories, small printing factories, small water plants, and small food factories to meet the living needs of the immigrants, provide them with the most basic products needed for the daily operation of an industrialized society, and gradually form a relatively independent industrial system to independently solve the basic needs of industrial and agricultural production and modern daily life, that is, to achieve initial industrialization.

- With steel mills, there is the basis of all military and civilian industries. With fertilizer factories and a variety of high-yielding seeds from the modern earth, the output of agricultural products can be greatly increased, thereby solving the problem of hunger among the population in the territory and increasing the enthusiasm of the indigenous "naturalized people" to support the Chinese traversers. With a cement plant, the construction of roads, dams and buildings is much easier. With a machine shop, it is possible to produce its own diesel engines, electric motors, pumps, bicycles, and even complex industrial goods such as tractors and small steamers.

In addition, this set of "five small industries" can also "reproduce themselves" - specifically, it is to use the production capacity of steel mills and machinery factories to replicate the same machine tools and other industrial equipment: one set of "five small industries" into two sets of "five small industries", and then two sets of "five small industries" into four sets of "five small industries...... In the end, we will be able to build an industrialized country with a low level of technology, but an absolutely large scale.

More importantly, relying on this industrial system, the Chinese traversers in the Falmatt continent can create a completely independent military industry that does not have to rely on the mother country on the other side of the "door". Although it can only reach the level of World War II or even World War I at most, it is enough to crush the natives of the Falmatt continent who are still in the era of feudal princes, even if the other party has magic......

At present, the above projects are still in full swing, but they have generally begun to take shape. The first factories have already been completed and put into operation, and they are self-sufficient in water, electricity and gas. Living quarters have been built in the city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and their products are being sold to customers across the continent through the fairs of the Arnoos hills. Then, on a cliff on the outskirts of the city, the engineering troops who built the city were ordered to carve a giant flaming torch relief as a landmark and symbol of the newly industrialized port city, from which the city was named "Torch Harbor......

In fact, there are several satellite cities like Port Torch that fall under the jurisdiction of the city of Arnoos. However, Torch Harbor is not only the largest satellite city and the only industrialized town, but also the only fortified city to be militarized. The urban area of Torch Harbor is only permanently inhabited by Chinese crossers, and apart from the occasional docking of indigenous fishing boats, there are few indigenous people, let alone foreign tourists, and even the city itself does not appear on the tour maps provided by otherworldly tour groups. Fortified in and out of the city, citizens and workers in military uniforms trained in military uniforms, as if it were an overseas military base – in fact, it was indeed a military base, whose mission was to set out from this port at some point to blow the horn of invasion and conquest of the fantastical world!

And the Chinese traversers who volunteered to come to this port with the above goals in mind, and received militarized management and training, are all future conquerors.

At this moment, Guo Jing, a former professor of Marxist philosophy and head of the preparatory group for the "Otherworldly Conquest Army" in Torch Harbor, is giving a mobilization speech full of ferocity and violence to the latest batch of volunteers who have come from the modern world to report in the auditorium of the largest city government in Torch Harbor.

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On the podium of the auditorium, Political Commissar Guo sat in a silver-gray tunic, his hair had changed from gray to gray, and his face was wrinkled, but his spirit became more and more vigorous, and his sharp eyes were even brighter.

Facing the black pressure of the audience, his posture was as immobile as iron, and he just opened his mouth into the microphone with a dry cough.

“…… Dear comrades! Welcome to Torch Harbor! Starting today, you will join the advance team of the Chinese nation to conquer the other world, and become a member of the reserve of the other world conquest army! Share the fatigue and sweat of hard work with us! Share the glory and joy of success!

Right! Conquest Army! We're here to start a war! It is not a war on terror, not a war of peacekeeping, not a war of self-defense to defend the country, but a war of conquest against the indigenous civilizations of another world with the goal of aggression, plunder, occupation and domination!

Here, I do not want to use any hypocritical words, such as 'indoctrination of barbarians', 'spreading freedom', 'advocating human rights', etc., to glorify this war of aggression that is about to unfold, nor will I give you a reason for bells that conforms to the mainstream values of the 21st century, which will only confuse your cognition. So, please give up those unrealistic fantasies and return to the law of the jungle seriously! We are not here for love and peace, but for aggression and expansion. As Jesus said, 'I have not come to bring peace to the earth, but to bring the sword to the earth.' ’

But we should not feel any guilt, because the terms aggression and expansion have certainly become derogatory terms that people can avoid in the post-Cold War era. But in the past history books, at least seventy percent of the most famous exploits of those great emperors were not all about invading other countries and expanding their own territory? Could it be that all the emperors and famous generals since ancient times will be beaten into sinners by us one by one?

Obviously, such a historical point of view is absolutely wrong! Throughout history, the rise of every great country has been accompanied by a monstrous sea of blood and bones! Natural selection, survival of the fittest! This is the law of nature that every one of us knows, and even in the 21 st century, after putting on the high-sounding whitewashed banners of human rights, democracy, and freedom, the essence of international competition is still that of the jungle.

Some people have been fooled by some modern propaganda media that try to emphasize 'political correctness', believing that China has been a country that has lacked interest in foreign expansion since ancient times, and that it will always be harmless to people and animals, and will always be beaten passively. But in fact, as long as we look at the map a little, we can understand that if we Chinese really love peace so much since ancient times and lack belligerent genes, then the 9.6 million square kilometers of territory of the Republic are not given away by phone bills? If it weren't for the Chinese ancestors who conquered the barbarians, overcame thorns and thorns, and made a blue thread, how could we have today's territory in China?

The Chinese ancestors relied on swords and blood to expand their territory, rather than clothing etiquette and moral articles. Modern Western civilization has swept the world since the Age of Discovery, and it does not rely on the moral high theory of democracy and human rights, or even on the pure scientific spirit and dialectics, but on the greed, ferocity, shrewdness and bravery of Western adventurers. From the Age of Discovery to the modern day, the brave, greedy, savage and cruel ancestors of the Western powers sailed rudimentary wooden ships, risked shipwrecks, storms and scurvy, and resolutely crossed thousands of miles of sea, bringing war and destruction to other civilizations. They exterminated the American Indians with muskets and pestilence, conquered black Africa by sowing discord and the slave trade, frightened the kings of the East with the bombardment of naval artillery, trampled the Middle East and India with their riding boots and iron hooves, and let the glory of Europa shine on all nations. They stood out in the cruel competition for survival, using bullets and sabers as pens, the blood and tears of the enemy as ink, and the corpses and ruins as paper, writing a glorious chapter of modern civilization.

We can say that they are cruel, that they are tyrannical, that they are shameless and evil, but in the eyes of history and nature, they are still righteous and great - natural selection, survival of the fittest, this is the eternal truth of hundreds of millions of years, this is the natural instinct that all living things have.

The brutal competition between human civilizations will never die out because of the theory of multiculturalism. Any attempt to escape the barbaric law of the jungle, such as the lockdown decree of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and the seclusion of the rulers of the Qing dynasty in China, is nothing more than self-deception, and will only end up being punished more harshly and ruthlessly. Civilization can make the law of the jungle warm, but its existence can never be denied. Otherwise, no matter how noble and advanced, prosperous and rich a civilization is, if it loses the courage to fight, then it will inevitably go to extinction. Those who profess themselves to be civilized will also be despised and ridiculed by the 'barbarians' in their eyes for their seemingly elegant weakness.

So, on this occasion, don't hide your savage nature! As the saying goes, if you are backward, you will be beaten, and the reverse can also be understood as: If you are advanced, you will be beaten. If we don't catch an unlucky guy and beat us up, how can we prove that we are strong and civilized? The reason why we are gathered here is not for any humanitarian and social progress, but for war and conquest, for the expansion of the living space of the Chinese nation, for the purpose of shattering an old world and building a new world! Of course, it's our new world!

In the midst of this looming war, to put it bluntly, we are a group of vicious invaders and colonizers, bullying the weak for their own benefit. Many innocent lives will be killed at our hands, and many indigenous people who have lost their homes will be filled with hatred for us.

On the other hand, in the coming wars of conquest, many of you will die in battle, from assassination, from disease and accident...... Even if you survive, you will have to overcome all kinds of difficult trials. The real crossing is not the kind of 'Dragon Quest' Japanese RPG game, there will not be so many beautiful girls to give you a hug, there will be no luxurious palaces or comfortable cabins for you to rest at any time, and there will be no clean toilets and wide and flat roads, only bugs, poisonous snakes, sneak attackers and germs that will come and go anytime...... The bullet you shoot is not just a small hole in a person's body, as shown on a TV show, but will break people's limbs, pierce people's torsos, lift people's skulls, and make flesh, internal organs and brains all over the ground, and even veterans will look at it and vomit.

If you're unfortunate enough to be taken captive by the natives, you'll probably think it's better to die sooner rather than later—there are no war conventions here, but human sacrifice is popular! You've seen all the bunny girls who have relocated to Hong Kong in recent years, right? Don't look at them all so petite and cute, like pets, but when they hold scimitars on the grassland, many of them used to be experts at skinning people alive!

But despite all the risks and sufferings ahead, we still have to take a gamble! Because this is the historical mission of our generation! ”

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Speaking of this, Political Commissar Guo couldn't help but pat the table of the podium excitedly, "...... Just as Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World ushered in the Age of Discovery for Europeans. With the possibility of crossing another world, our generation of Chinese has also stepped on the crossroads of the era of great crossing. More fortunately, this time the era of great crossing was first opened by us Chinese, which is equivalent to being one step ahead at the starting line!

However, just because you're one step ahead at the start doesn't mean you're going to be able to keep that advantage up. Before the Europeans started the Age of Discovery, our country also had Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean, but then he dismantled the ship and stopped sailing, giving up the sea to the Westerners. Of course, I do not intend to condemn the short-sightedness and stupidity of our ancestors here, because their seafaring skills were not yet mature, and every time they went to sea, it was an expensive and expensive venture with great cost and risk, far less stable and reliable than the income from buying land and collecting rent, as in the past. Just like our current time-traveling operation is not very mature, even the space-time gate to the other world, we can't fully grasp it, and every connection with the other world has a time limit. Due to the size limitations of the space-time gate, it is difficult for us to bring back a lot of goods from the other world to give back to our motherland.

But despite this, we still have to enter the Atlas, no matter what the cost or risk. Recall it! At the risk of the loss of their bones, Europeans in the Age of Discovery set sail with an adventurous spirit to usher in a new era. The Chinese scholars of the same era were content with a comfortable rural life, and only thought of living a peaceful life with tenant rent as usual, while it was dangerous and expensive to build ships and go to sea, and as for the slaughter of foreign races and plundering land, it was even more unforgiving. In this way, we Chinese not only continued to stand still for hundreds of years, missed the entire Age of Discovery, and eventually even our homeland almost became the prey of Western adventurers.

Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future, we Chinese have missed the era of great navigation, how can we miss the era of great crossing again?

Further, it is the heavens and all the worlds, the stars and the sea, and if you take a step back, you will hold on to the remnants and guard the dogs, or even sit back and wait to die—who can guarantee that the road to the other world will always be monopolized by us? What if other nations had a way to cross the Atlas?

In the face of such a fateful torrent of times, it is naturally self-evident where we modern Chinese should go.

In fact, through several otherworldly crossings in recent years, our motherland has reaped tremendous benefits, from cold nuclear fusion reactors, to spaceships, as well as all kinds of amazing otherworldly animals and intelligent life, as well as many more technologies or discoveries that have not yet been put into practical use. The impact and value of these technological advances, which can help us run to the sea of stars in the future, cannot be measured by money alone.

Of course, some people say that in this case, we only need to collect resources, technology, and products from other worlds, so why migrate to other worlds to live? This is a very short-sighted idea, just as the Spaniards were only happy to dig up the gold and silver of the Americas and enjoy them at home, but they were not willing to build the American colonies into the soil. You know, for a country, a nation, there is nothing in this world more precious than the land, the ancient Chinese family, there is still the instinct to spread the leaves, how can the modern Chinese not even have the courage to go out?

What's more, the modern earth we live in is probably not as peaceful and secure as many people think. Although the Cold War is over, the nuclear weapons of the great powers are still aimed at each other, and they can turn each other's core hinterland into a radioactive wasteland at any time. Serious threats such as rising sea levels, climate change, deforestation, depletion of mineral energy, terrorist attacks, clash of civilizations, and class contradictions still haunt our modern civilization, and no one is sure that the outbreak and spread of all these crises can be avoided by peaceful means. Although, after successfully repairing the alien spacecraft Macross that crashed at the mouth of the Pearl River, we have been able to organize a large number of people to land on the moon for mining and build a space station in lunar orbit, I am afraid that we are still a long way from establishing a self-sufficient lunar colony. And, if the worst predictions come true and a global nuclear war does break out, our permanent base on the moon may not be destroyed by a frenzied enemy.

However, now because of this other world that can be traversed, in the possible catastrophe of the earth in the future, we Chinese are equivalent to a relatively safe refuge out of thin air. By sending our immigrants to another world, we can not only spread our compatriots in the multiverse, spread our civilization and beliefs, and create a backup of the Chinese nation there, but also reduce the population pressure on China itself and reduce the excessive demand for the earth's natural resources. Moreover, the cost of sending people to the other world, even now, is far less expensive than manned landings on the moon.

In fact, I believe everyone here knows that the same otherworldly colonization and exploration, when crossing the plane at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country had already organized once, and nearly 200,000 brave compatriots went to that familiar and strange world. Then, out of consideration for the three caves of the cunning rabbit, in this even stranger fantasy world, we must also repeat the precedent of colonization in the late Ming Dynasty plane to spread more fire for our civilization.

To give a similar example, England in the Age of Discovery, with such a courageous pioneering and adventurous spirit, spread their culture that was not advanced at that time to the world. Even though the British Empire has collapsed, English has evolved from a little-known minority language of a marginal island nation to the most widely spoken international language on the planet and the official Chinese language of the world's hegemon. The emergence of a series of English-speaking countries on all continents is also the legacy of English navigators...... And we also hope that even if the motherland on Earth encounters an unpredictable and devastating disaster, our Chinese language and Chinese culture will still be able to pass on the torch and live on in the sub-base on the other side of the multiverse......"

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“…… In addition to the above macro narrative truths, for the personal future of all comrades, there will also be a higher new starting point in the other world, and this may also be one of the biggest attractions of traveling through the other world......"

After explaining the great strategic significance of conquering and colonizing the other world, Political Commissar Guo suddenly changed his words, "...... I believe that everyone should also have this self-knowledge, on the earth, people with similar talents to you, can be described as a car bucket, how many as you want. Your work and life are like a drop of water melted into the sea, and the trajectory of your life is like a cog turning day after day, until the natural law of birth, old age, sickness and death makes you finally disappear in the sea of people, and you are soon forgotten, leaving no trace. It's hard to make a name for yourself.

But in this fantastical world, the knowledge of modern science, even the most basic ideas, in your mind is as valuable as an oasis in the desert. Even if they graduated from high school, they are already high-level intellectuals in this land, and the personal value of every comrade at the starting line can be said to have been greatly improved. Your success rate in making a name for yourself in history is certainly much higher than it is on Earth.

Moreover, compared to a turnip and a pit, the flow of classes is becoming more and more slow, and one step to the sky has gradually become a delusional modern earth, this other world that is about to be cleansed by war, but for you is a blank, as long as you are willing to pay enthusiasm and sweat, the future has infinite possibilities.

Just like Shenzhen in the early days of reform and opening up, the first few batches of people who went to break through, as long as they were not too unlucky, basically became the boss. But if you go to Shenzhen later, no matter how high your education and ability are, most of them will find it difficult to get ahead, and you can only be a senior worker...... In the same way, we conquer and colonize another world here, although the risk is much higher than that of Shenzhen, but the benefits are also greater. We will be a nation, a builder of civilization. It will certainly be much easier for you to get ahead in the New World than it is on Earth.

What's more, after seeing such a wonderful new world with your own eyes, will you willingly return to your daily routine and continue to limit your life trajectory to Earth? At least, I don't want to, and I've decided that I'm going to leave the rest of my life here and burn with even more brilliance. You know, life is short, but a hundred years. There should always be something in life that is more meaningful than our mediocre daily life. It can make the value of our life not so ordinary, so boring. I think the new challenges here will appeal to you more than the normal life on the other side of the earth. Just like the famous Western explorers of the Age of Discovery, although they risked never returning every time they went to sea, they still took the risk of setting sail again and again, driven by curiosity. For a nation without an adventurous spirit is a bored nation; A person who lacks curiosity is a boring person. To make our people and yourself less boring, let your curiosity and adventurous spirit fly and show your dreams and talents in another world! Comrades! ”

With Political Commissar Guo's raised right hand, after a moment of silence, a warm applause erupted in the auditorium. Looking at those excited and eager eyes, Political Commissar Guo was smiling and waving his hand, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed an acquaintance - Li Wei, who is currently acting as the captain of the urban management brigade of Arnus City, came here at some point and walked straight towards the podium.

After being slightly stunned, Political Commissar Guo quickly got up and leaned over, held Li Wei's hand, and said with a smile, "...... Yo, is it Comrade Levi? It's been a long time, what is the wind that blew you from Arnous? Is there anything that matters? ”

“…… Alas, it's been a long time. Political Commissar Guo, your mobilization speech just now is really good, sensational enough, I saw a few young men below who were so excited that tears came out. Levi also replied with a smile.

“…… Where, where, you are really exaggerating! And they're a little more excited now, and it's good to have half of them choose to stay in the end. After all, colonizing another world is not an overseas tour, and it is even more difficult than going to Africa to do engineering! ”

Political Commissar Guo replied disappreciatively, "...... By the way, you haven't said what you're here for! ”

“…… It's just a little personal, it's not a big deal. Levi said with a big grin, "...... Where are we going to talk privately? ”

“…… Well, it's almost evening dinner, so let's just have dinner together and talk while eating! ”

Political Commissar Guo looked at the wall clock on the wall and made an inviting gesture, "...... Although the place in Torch Harbor is shabby, the seafood is not bad...... Today I'm in for a treat, drink raspberry wine from the dark elves, and fried sea lizard steak and giant spider crab! ”

“…… You're so kind, how can you break the bank...... Well, then I'd be respectful and obey my fate......"

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PS: Regarding Taiwan's unpaid labor "pot sticker service" in lieu of military service, it actually includes Sihaiyoulong pot sticker shop, Uni-President supermarket, Thai cuisine, taxi company and black cat express company, etc. It really has the style of the slender man, the captain, the oil presser and the hotel guy in the late Northern Song Dynasty who all belong to the box army.

In addition, I read a very embarrassing historical material today, during the operation of the Eight-Nation Coalition into Beijing, Austria-Hungary sent about 300 soldiers to make up the number, and afterwards took 4 million taels of silver from the Xinchou Treaty. But the problem is that the expenses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this expedition plus the cost of rebuilding the embassy in Beijing, the accounts reported to Emperor Franz are equivalent to more than 6 million taels of silver, and in order to go to Beijing for an armed tour, the average soldier spends nearly 20,000 taels of silver - what a money-burning expedition! God knows how much the Austro-Hungarian officers were greedy...... Moreover, due to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, China only paid about half of this indemnity in the end, and the assets left by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in China were returned to the Beiyang government.

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