The Witch's Taste

Chapter 375: Beat Xia Qingyu and get a critical hit
"How many times has this happened?"

"The number is over 30, and there is nothing we can do about it."

Chen Ziang sighed and continued to read the accident report at hand.

Since the establishment of the starship human race, there have been two factions, "get off the ship" and "stay on the ship", and they have been constantly fighting and fighting within the starship society.

The core of the theory of the disembarkation faction is that it is extremely unsafe to stay on a ship for a long time, because once the ship sinks, everyone will die, so they must find a planet to immigrate to as soon as possible.

The stay-on-ship faction has no theoretical core; their job is to refute the various propositions of the disembarkation faction.For example, if you say that living on a ship is not safe, then I will reply and say that living on a planet is safe?The human beings on this ship include Takamama, Aegiraos, and Garcia. Why don't you have enough points to board the ship?
To be honest, you can also use the ultimate move: you want to get off the ship and roll yourself, but the airlock is not locked!
If there are no external changes, this balance of power may be maintained for a while. However, with the news that the Federation declared "Starship humans are an evil organization" and the newly immigrated Garcia people were brought to the starship, the corresponding unrest also began. come behind.

Many people applied to the Civil Affairs Bureau to leave the ship and land in Garcia - of course, the Civil Affairs Bureau did not have this business, but the troublemakers would not listen.

Yuuki Izumo was forced to come forward and took these people to visit the mechanical airdrop warehouse. He told everyone that the Garcia Star Port currently refuses us to dock. If you have to disembark, we can only put you in a can like this and stuff it into the barrel. Here, launch in the direction of Planet Garcia.

This exaggerated statement scared everyone away, but it also meant that their original anxiety and pressure could not be released, so they turned to other meaningless and hysterical vents.

For example, there were quarrels or even fights with the ship-staying faction, resulting in corresponding deaths and injuries... The report Chen Ziang received provided a rough summary of such accidents.

It is obvious that the proportion of Run people is gradually increasing. These people are afraid of the coming war and have absolutely no confidence to fight it.

This is also due to the special environment of the starship.If this happened on a planet, even if the Federation really went to war with the authorities, everyone could rush to the countryside in advance (unless the fight turned into a stalemate and they were raped).

But where can you go if you live on a starship?Once the military is defeated, there is a high probability that the Forever will be destroyed as well. No one thinks that the Federation will be kind enough to take the refugees on this sunken giant ship to other galaxies after destroying the human upper echelons of the starship.

From this point of view, the entire starship human population is actually very clear about the callousness of the Federation.

Those who insist on getting off the ship are not optimistic about immigrating to the Federation, but are pessimistic about the future of humanity on starships - even being a second-class citizen in the Federation is better than dying on a starship.

After roughly sorting out his thoughts, Chen Ziang ordered:
"Let's put some effort into publicity. Let our official media interview the military and do an exclusive interview to enhance people's self-confidence. In addition, we also find a few more radical disembarkation factions to do the same interview."

After spending so much time in this position, Chen Ziang was also exposed to many rulers' skills.One of the most basic rules is: Don’t use administrative means to do things that can be done through publicity.

Administrative means are the simplest, crudest and most rubbish means of treatment, and the abuse of administrative means will inevitably lead to dependence on inertia - as long as I give an order, all the untouchables must obey, so why should I think about how to govern? ?If things go on like this, the entire administrative system will quickly deteriorate and become an administrative machine that does not make decisions and bans when things happen.

What's more, although the starship humans may not be as good as others, they still have an advantage in publicity.After all, society as a whole is a fairly closed environment without the interference and invasion of external ideological trends. History has proven that it is very simple for this kind of society to keep the collective consciousness pure.

As for the propaganda content, Chen Ziang also proposed a direction of thought: military parade.

Nothing can quickly condense national pride than a military parade. Most people don't know much about military technology. Many people even still uphold the values ​​​​of "big is good, more is beautiful." Therefore, as long as the fleet is formed Fleets of various colors sailing past with great vigor and arrogance on the TV screen, coupled with appropriate explanations, can make the people firmly believe that "we have the power to protect ourselves."

The true meaning of national defense is to make the people believe that they are safe. This sentence is sometimes not ironic, because once the people lack confidence in this aspect, endless problems will follow.

Of course, since it involves a military parade, the entire military must be mobilized.

Chen Ziang decided to go to Xia Qingyu to vent his anger.

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Strictly speaking, the core of power among today's top human beings in starships should be in the hands of four people.

If compared to other forces, the four supreme rulers often mean ever-changing alliances and endless internal fights and games.

But these things have nothing to do with the starship humans, because the only male among them, Chen Ziang, belongs to the uncrowned king.Although he does not have a direct faction or team on the surface, as long as he speaks - other women will give him face.

Even Xia Qingyu, who seemed to be the least likely to deal with him on the surface, had never really opposed him.

"What do you think of the military parade plan?" Chen Ziang asked patiently.

"Not very good." Xia Qingyu's answer was no exception, or Chen Ziang didn't expect to hear a good answer from her, "Do you have that time to prepare for the military parade?"

"There are plenty of ways to do things when you have plenty of time, and there are ways to do things intensely when you are short of time." Chen Ziang said tactfully.

"Hurry preparation will inevitably be full of flaws, and it will become a negative example after being criticized." Xia Qingyu said leisurely, "Actually, there is an easier way, why don't you use your brain?"

"Is it possible that the plan I showed you is the brainchild of everyone except you?" Chen Ziang asked tactfully.

Xia Qingyu was silent for a moment and sighed.

Chen Ziang was all too familiar with her expression. It seemed that the first meaning was "I knew you couldn't do it", but the second meaning was "let me help you."A duplicitous woman, haha.

"There are two best ways to force the crowd to continue moving forward." Xia Qingyu said slowly, "One is the temptation ahead, and the other is the danger behind."

Chen Ziang pondered.

The temptation ahead is easy to understand. It is probably similar to Cao Cao's classic trick of looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst. As long as he declares "We have located a virgin planet in the edge star region suitable for colonization", or "The empire has promised to accept us as citizens", The internal morale of the starship humans will immediately reach its peak, and even the most radical disembarkation faction will settle down.

As for the danger behind it...the Plague Walkers of Galapasia?
If the Plague Walker comes to the world and brings destruction and catastrophe to the Garcia sector, then as long as the corresponding propaganda materials are photographed and shown to the people, the people themselves will come up with things like "Plutocratic War" and then criticize Garcia. If they stay away, the disembarkation faction will naturally stop for a while.

"But when will the Plague Walker come to the world?" Chen Ziang also didn't expect that one day he would actually hope that the abyss god would come as soon as possible. "After all, we can only stay here for five days..."

"There are only five days." Xia Qingyu asked meaningfully, "So?"

"Uh." Chen Ziang finally reacted, "You said earlier that we have five days left. This time is not based on the federation's response and preparation process, but is calculated based on how long Galapasia can survive the evil god's attack. ?”

"Otherwise?" Xia Qingyu raised her eyebrows and asked, "What do you think it is?"

"Of course I thought it was the Federation." Chen Ziang frowned and said, "We weren't discussing the Federation at that time... Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

I originally wanted to praise her for being so well connected, but now I would be asking for ridicule if I said any more.

Chen Ziang continued to look around. This was the side room of the bridge command room. It was originally designed as a lounge exclusively for the captain, but as Suzuna Tsukimiya moved the location of activities to his study and bedroom, it became Xia Qingyu's. Dedicated room - I accidentally heard Yuki Izumo say that His Highness has not gone back to the bedroom to sleep in the past few days, and has spent the whole night here.

Her work attitude of forgetting sleep and food made Chen Ziang a little worried, not only because he was concerned about Xia Qingyu's body, but also because he didn't know why she was working so hard and whether there was something more terrifying waiting for the starship humans behind.

Although he probably couldn't trick her, Chen Ziang still decided to give it a try. Anyway, there would be no loss if he failed.

"Qingyu, you look a little off lately." He asked casually, pretending to be nonchalant.

"A clumsy test." Xia Qingyu was not deceived and exposed his disguise mercilessly.

"What kind of temptation can't it be that I care about you?" Chen Zi'ang chuckled.

What matters is generosity. I won’t care about anything you say.

Xia Qingyu fell silent and said after a while:

"You don't have to mind your own business."

"I'm afraid it's nothing serious." Chen Zi'ang said in a deep voice, "If it has anything to do with me, I will take care of it."

"You don't even know what's going on, how can you take care of it?" Xia Qingyu sneered.

"you can tell me."

"You think I'll tell you?"

"Yeah, since you didn't say no right away, I figured it was something you could let me know."

"Very good." Xia Qingyu seemed to be angry, "Then I clearly reject you here: mind your own business."

"Interesting." Seeing her being so angry, Chen Zi'ang felt reassured, "So you still don't deny that this matter is related to me, right?"

"Xia Qingyu, we have been together for so long, and I have a general understanding of your character. If you really make up your mind, you will not be swayed by my few words. You will only put on an expression of indifference and rejection. No matter how much I try to persuade you, there will be no change."

"The reason why you lose your temper here is not because you hate me for stalking me, but to cover up your inner hesitation... You are actually angry with yourself."

Xia Qingyu's anger was frozen on her beautiful face, and all the sarcastic and humiliating words she was about to blurt out were suddenly cut off in her throat.

Like a snake held down seven inches, a cat strangled by the neck, or a robot whose program has crashed, it has lost all its ability to react.

Only in those dark eyes, some unexplainable complex emotions suddenly emerged.

　I know this chapter is very short, but... Kavin originally wanted to take a day off today, but at eleven o'clock he suddenly regained some of his creative state, so he just wrote this little bit.Recently, a book friend contacted me and said that he purchased a hat abroad. It is said to have magical properties and can cure CAV when worn on the head, so he sent it to me.I'll put it on then and see if it has any effect.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)