Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

"Workers and soldiers."

PS: It’s starting to drop (sad)

Chapter 12 Mess

"Workers and soldiers".

Just looking at these two words, this policy is no different from nonsense.If you indiscriminately expand your influence in factories, farmers, and the army to win people's hearts, it will be tantamount to a direct war with the Teresia regime, which is now deeply wary of Atlas.

Therefore, from these three aspects, it is better to start to understand Kazdel's general social situation, and then start working from the perspective that is most effective with half the effort.

All in all, the extremely complex social environment of Terra makes it extremely difficult to conduct social investigation and analysis.From the overall level of civilization shown, the technological level and industrial output value of Terra civilization should be between the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution.

Yet with a little care, we can find countless things that shouldn't be in this day and age.Among other things, does the level of energy, materials, and industrial scale represented by mobile cities look like it was in the [-]th century?

The products from the Middle Ages to the space age appeared on this land at the same time.Some of them are relics of previous civilizations, and some are produced in a small amount by artisans relying on Originium technology. It is difficult to say that they are representative in terms of productivity and technological level of "this land".But they do exist and are widely used.

As far as Kazdaele's current productivity level is concerned, the problem is relatively simplified - Kazdaele's current weak and incomplete industry basically exists for the supply war, that's all.

The arsenals of the Sarkaz are currently highly dependent on Originium Artisan artisans to manufacture precision parts, barely producing smokeless gunpowder and bolt-action rifles in batches.The inspection team of the Casting Hall of the Kazdale Column was greatly shocked after inspecting the arsenal sent by Theresia, and the report sent back also shocked the leadership of the column:

Thearesia's Sakaz craftsmen relied on their large number of infected people and Originium craftsmen to hand-roll tens of thousands of rifled barrels and rotating back-pull bolts!

Of course, this description is exaggerated and inaccurate.To be precise, in order to meet the high processing precision requirements for the production of new guns, in order to manufacture those unprecedented special-shaped components, the Sarkaz people worked on various production lines in the arsenal, such as propellants, bullets, and firearms. In the link, craftsmen with high-level origin stone skills are selected to use in large quantities, and the technical standards and process equipment are also highly technological in origin stone.

Such a problem is that the requirements for key production positions in the arsenal have been greatly increased.In addition to everything needed to train an advanced mechanical manufacturing worker, this production mode also has high requirements for the worker's Originium skill level and experience.And at this level, masters of Originium skills who are also "professional counterparts" are extremely precious, and it has become the most important constraint to limit production.

Although the Sakaz people are born with a body that is close to the Originium, there are many infected people, and there are quite a lot of people who are good at Originium skills. They rely on a lot of craftsmen to mass-produce new guns that do not have the production conditions. .However, old production methods and backward process equipment are seriously hindering the increase in the output of weapons and ammunition, and its production capacity growth has gradually slowed down.Theresia's arsenal is in urgent need of technological improvements and even new methods of military industrial production.

In other words, what is needed is a new type of military industrial system that de-crafts Originium and de-craftsmanizes it.The Teresia regime is different from the overall wary attitude towards Atlas in this matter, and it is very urgent to cooperate with Atlas.

This will allow the power of Atlas to directly infiltrate Kazdel's current small number of industrial workers, and then there is no need to say much about what to do.

On the other hand, Atlas will establish related ordnance enterprises locally.However, unlike the industrial packages of various levels based on the local productivity level of Terra, whose technical level ranges from the first industrial revolution to the early 21st century, the 113th Division's own advanced military production system is highly modularized, automated, and rapid. Frontline needs can be met with very little manpower.

In this case, the Sarkaz workers recruited by Atlas certainly wouldn't actually be "workers".After all, although there are a large number of them, they lack sufficient professional skills, and all indicators except physical fitness are not enough to be qualified as laborers in the interstellar era——

Therefore, they will all be members of the "workers' militia", "factory protection team" and other units.

Problems in rural areas are really difficult to deal with. 200 years ago before the coming of all nations, Kazdale still had a little bit of urbanization rate. As a result, after 200 years of war, Kazdale's city basically collapsed.

guess what?

Today's Terra is feudalism in the limelight, and the bourgeoisie has just begun to come to power.In Kazdale 200 years ago, in the economic system of this country, the feudal land rent system had an absolute advantage.

After the four-nation coalition invaded and basically defeated the Kingdom of Kazdaele, Kazdaele's original grassroots ruling order basically collapsed and entered a state of anarchy.As the city, the end point of exploitation, collapsed, rural surplus products increased, which in turn enabled local armed forces to be supported.

At the same time, resistance to foreign invaders is the best source of legitimacy for grassroots reorganization.There will also be irreconcilable economic conflicts between the rural upstarts and the foreign invaders——

The Allied Forces of the Four Nations were originally beaten to only one level of health by the regular army of the Kingdom of Kazdaele, but they barely stood up and gave the Kingdom of Kazdaele the final blow.When they realized what a huge mess they had made, they immediately went back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers.Kazdel, who left the royal military leaders and the royal family members to start a national chicken-eating competition together.

This situation is a paradise for local clans and separatist warlords to emerge...

Such a huge mess has not been completely sorted out to this day.Both Teresia and Teresis have the tendency of "the royal power does not go to the countryside", but they barely use their direct descendants to maintain social operation and armed forces.Its position on a larger scale is close to that of the alliance leader.

Therefore, if the country's economic system is to be restored and a true central government is to be reestablished, control over small towns and rural areas must be reestablished.As mentioned before, the countryside has become a paradise for clans and warlords, and its legitimacy is often based on resistance to "outsiders" - and this outsider does not only refer to foreign invading armies.Want them to admit defeat and hand over power?There is no other way to go, just slowly clear the countryside...

If Atlas really launched a blitz and disintegration of the two groups of Theresia and Theresis in Kazdel, then the more successful this kind of action is, the more it is asking for trouble.This is the fastest way to disintegrate Kazdel's not very extensive and strong order, and to carry the burden on himself at the fastest speed.

Therefore, Kazdel's rural issues can only be discussed after the establishment of a unified central government.Killing knife skills cannot be used to chop earthworms, and beheading earthworms with one knife is definitely a performance art.The trouble begins when the worm is chopped in half with a single knife.When the brothers and sisters of the Te family and the royal courts of Sarkaz were destroyed in a month, the war had just begun.

According to the plan of the Kazdale column, if you really want to consider solving the entire Kazdale, instead you should play an iron wall from the beginning, and carry out a slow-paced pull-net-style front-line push from the rural areas, and make its main population in the form of refugees Drive to big cities and abroad, and keep the original regime running and resist the army during this period, and finally take down the big cities.After population registration and the establishment of grassroots political power, the population will be gradually returned to the countryside in a controlled manner.Directly disintegrate its resistance foundation and powerful system.

But such conditions are not met.To do this, Atlas's existing troops are insufficient, so he must either apply for reinforcements from his superiors, obtain a political status equivalent to the central power in Kazdare, or form a closely united cooperative relationship with the central power.The current military and political conditions are completely immature, and Atlas can only establish a relatively peaceful environment around its own base at best.

Therefore, another direction that needs to be focused on is the military.It's still the same old saying - power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Comand is not optimistic about the situation in the army.What kind of people can Teresia send?That must be a diehard who is highly loyal to Theresa's regime.The political commissar of the column has no Yuri mind control on the Red Police set next door, and there is no wire system to release the brain upgrade aura to the control area.Just like in the northwest tundra of Usas, instead of doing hard and meticulous work, if you want to rely on a few red covers that have been sewn left and right, people from all walks of life will come to vote, saying that the chief will accept the head and worship——

Go to sleep, dreams have everything.

The special advisers of the 113th Division came from an unspeakable country in the 21st century on Blue Star before they traveled back. On the contrary, they had a very negative attitude towards the identity of "advisors sent by Big Brother to foreign revolutionaries". Who still doesn't remember a certain Otto... What good thing did Comrade von Braun do?If I were to do it myself, I can’t say that I wouldn’t mess it up.

Therefore, it is better to follow the teachings of our ancestors: Pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and make a fortune in silence.

**

Theresa was not idle when the Atlas Kazdel column retreated and retreated to gain a foothold first.

All the intelligence points out that the Regent faction in the west of Kazdale is preparing for war and expanding military industrial production.

But economically speaking, at this time the Kazdale Military Council government itself is in deep trouble.It had taken a series of economic measures to try to avoid a recession, but now it is showing that these measures have no effect other than emptying its own national coffers.

Because Kazdaele’s current problem is not an economic crisis caused by relative overproduction, but the contradiction between insufficient social production and people’s needs.Tracy didn't have the ability to feed thousands of people with just five fish and two loaves, so he had to tighten his belt and trick everyone into using Sakaz's special skill - robbery. .

As for who to rob, right now I can only embarrassingly rob my sister...

However, the military advantage still greatly enhanced the confidence of the leader of the military council, Teresi.As long as the army's battle preparations are completed and the military expenditures are in place, the military committee will definitely eradicate the opponents in the east in one fell swoop, and then use the land, population and money there to fill the treasury, solve the current problems in one fell swoop, and win the future on the international political stage of the entire Terra continent. admission ticket.

But at this time, Theresia's government did not spend as much money as it did in the west to prepare for war.Theresia went against all odds and said that she must first fix the economy and win the hearts and minds of the people before she could obtain the capital to start a war with the Military Council and start work on the economic direction.

The economic situation in the eastern part of Kazdale is much better than that in the western part, which will last until the beginning of next spring at most, but it still faces the contradiction between insufficient social production and the most basic living needs of the people.To mobilize people's enthusiasm, there is still only one choice - Tutu.

The economic situation of The Theresia Group does not mean that she will definitely be able to bring down the Theresis Group in a protracted war.Because the power concentration of The Theresia Group is much lower than that of Theresia, the various clans that are favored and coerced by Theresia may waver or even rebel at any time when facing greater pressure.

So Teresia's economic reforms are the first to attack them.

Blocking people's money is like killing your parents.In order to avoid too strong a backlash, Theresia decided to take a looser approach to the big family members and kill the small family members and the people.

To implement this plan, we must first stabilize our own economy...

Wait, Atlas seems to have financing channels?Is there any interest-free and low-interest loan business?

So before Atlas began to figure out how to further interfere with Kazdel, Teresia first sent a business cooperation intention.

"Teresia is engaged in the 'Red Gold Tour', personally bringing a large amount of gold to various places in the territory to publicly display the gold to create momentum for the paper currency."

Comand flipped through the documents that Tallulah handed him, and continued to read, and saw Theresia's recent combined punches: Theresia's government ordered that all factories must use mark notes to pay workers' wages, and the Queen's Guards All military pay to the Tower of Babel was also paid in paper money.

In support of this action, Teresia's army forcibly captured the small and medium-sized clansmen and confiscated their property inventory. For the big clans, they signed relevant agreements with them in exchange for political interests such as seats in the Sarkaz royal family council. Force them to recognize the status of banknotes and regulate economic circulation in accordance with government guidance.

In just one and a half months, the Theresia regime successfully established a unified banknote circulation system in the eastern Kazdaele, turning the banknote mark from a nominal universal currency into a real toy.When the people under the princess' rule found that the banknotes they received could actually buy goods, and the prices were far more reasonable than before, they immediately kicked the adults in their territories aside and shouted long live Her Highness Theresia.

With the approval of the masses, banknotes have also changed from printed matter to money.While the economy is far from rosy, it's almost the best time for Kazdel's economy in 200 years.The temporarily strong banknote mark and the red gold loaned from Atlas gave Theresia's regime enough military expenses to prepare for war.

"So, it's only a matter of time before a full-blown civil war breaks out in Kazdel."

Commander's deep voice echoed in the large conference room of the base in the Kau border area, and entered the ears of the members of the decision-making committee of Kazdel's column: "I must first admit that I underestimated Teresa. Even as a feudal ruler , She is also the kind who is capable, courageous, and cunning. We must start to further influence the Kazdel Civil War as soon as possible, so as to obtain sufficient political capital, so as to facilitate the next step of work."

Bojokas raised his hand: "Please speak."

"Please," Commander replied.

"Comrades, as far as the current situation is concerned, we are facing a delicate situation. The Thearesian Group is very uneasy about our military strength. Obviously, the column cannot currently dispatch the main force of the combat force, which will cause Thearesian The group's overreaction.

"However, in the current environment, military means are the key to our political resources.

"How to exert larger forces on the battlefield with smaller forces is the key to our current efforts."

The decision committee members of the column sitting in rows under the stage all turned their heads to look at him.Most of the decision-makers in Kazdel's column are soldiers from the People's Federation.In fact, the People's Federation holds most of the power in Kazdel's column.Bojokasti is nominally the commander of the column, but this is mainly because of his identity as the Sarkaz Wendigo.This has huge implications for working in Kazdel.

But as far as actual decision-making is concerned, Bozhuo Kasti's current knowledge structure and professional ability do not yet support him to participate in overall decision-making-he is currently the most competent company commander of the "Shield Guard" heavy infantry company.This is also more in line with his cover identity - Kazdale Regional PR Manager...

Therefore, at the decision committee meeting, he has seldom made substantive speeches and proposals for a long time, just a silent voting machine.He himself has no opinion on this, and Bozhuo Casti is very self-aware.It is rare to make a clear statement of opinion like this.

So is he right?

Of course it is.

"Yes. Comrade Bodrocasti's opinion is very correct." Comand replied on the stage.

This meeting serves as a phased summary meeting from the entry of the Kazdel Column into Kazdale to the present.With everyone making it clear that military struggle is the way of working in the next stage, it is only natural to discuss specific circumstances and details.

Now that the armed forces are being used to intervene in the Kazdel Civil War, the political constraints will be very serious.As a result, the negotiation with Theresia Group is imminent.

Atlas is very interested in this, and Theresa is also very enthusiastic about it.However, a big piece of news soon came over:

"There is a division-level battle between Theresia and Tracys!"

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Chapter 13 The Negotiating Table

The large land cruiser "Rhode Island" is moored quietly in the wilderness on the outskirts of Kazdaele City.

"...1 years later, another broken femur is in front of us."

Teresia is sitting in the cabin of the USS Rhode Island at this moment, turning on the smart terminal device in her hand again.

Relying on Sarkaz's incredible variety of origin stone skills, a certain princess's brainless fan W copied and visualized a small part of his memory about Commandel, and gave it to Teresia.Teresia looked at the fuzzy femur fossil again and again, each time with an extremely complicated expression.

She pressed the lock screen button, and Comand's voice disappeared.Teresia raised her head and looked at the shadow of the ship gradually approaching outside the porthole.

......

"Aerial reconnaissance and satellite reconnaissance intelligence show that Theresia's regime is sending more troops to the actual control line. In Theresia's public channels and information notifications to our side, these are a group of ordinary routines. Troops, just to deal with border conflicts."

Lin Huaisheng, Chief of Staff of the Kazdale Column on the screen, is pointing to the displayed aerial camera photos, introducing the frequently updated information on the Kazdale area: "However, according to aerial reconnaissance and satellite reconnaissance, the troops mobilized by Teresia are actually Driving to the front line in a multi-channel manner in small stocks, it well hides its true size.

"Communication interception and detection confirmed that from Kazdale City to the area of ​​the actual control line, there have been obvious increases in radio transmission sources, communication frequencies, and unit codes. In the vicinity of the actual control line area, radio silence has clearly appeared .

"Our intelligence and reconnaissance shows that in the vicinity of several elite divisions of the East Kazdale coalition forces and the National Guard, although their troops are still out for training as usual, the sales of non-staple food for surrounding residents have dropped significantly; the consumption of materials in their canteens also greatly reduced.

"—We have reason to believe that Teresia is planning a surprise attack."

Comand nodded with a solemn expression, then turned around, looking at the incomparably huge Rhodes Island in the porthole.

**

The land strike cruiser "Natural Selection" and the two accompanying standard destroyers approached the large land cruiser "Rhode Island", which is the headquarters of the Tower of Babel.

Rhodes Island is a relic of a pre-civilization that was unearthed in Ram Billiton not long ago and traveled to Kazdale after a long journey.Its renovation work has only just begun.At first glance, its huge hull, which is more than twice as long and wide as an amphibious assault ship, is covered with rust spots everywhere, like vines and moss all over the ancient walls.Until now, the crew of Atlas can still see the dancing welds on the huge hull of Rhodes Island.

As far as Rhodes Island is concerned, although the opponent's ship is small, it is already quite large as a combat ship.And there is also a scene that has never been seen on this land——

The integrated surveillance drones and "Storm Hawk" light gunships that make up the aerial part of the fleet warning circle, the small drones that surround the ship like a swarm, and the VTOL that takes off from the large through-type flight deck of the strike cruiser .

The air combat power of Terran civilization is limited to small or even hand-thrown drones, and a handful of helicopters.At higher altitudes, Terran civilization is undefended.They do not have aircraft and air defense weapons with sufficient performance, have not established an aviation and air defense combat system, and have no relevant theoretical doctrines. They can only count on "controlling the air with the ground"...

Perhaps the brains of the Terra people and the EyeballMKI optical radar have the same performance as anti-aircraft gun sights and even anti-aircraft artillery unit fire control radars. All of them can visually measure the altitude, speed, heading, and azimuth of enemy aircraft in the air, and perform mental calculations and mental calculations to bind relevant data for air-to-air shooting. Zhu Yuan, let's throw a spear and shoot down the aircraft of the ghost beast from the other universe.

To be serious, the reality is that we are faced with the aviation force of the 113th Division of the Human Federation's Extraterrestrial Corps, which can launch orbital airborne combat operations and whose range of operations ranges from space to ultra-low altitude; and the Terra People's Protection Forces Air Force, whose technical level in the construction plan can reach the early stage of the Cold War. and Army Aviation.The people of Terra did not even have World War I-level air defense capabilities. They relied only on a few Originium propellant rocket launchers and the old-fashioned attack spells of the warlocks who had basically never hit air targets. It was impossible for air combat operations to cause any effective obstruction.At most, occasionally touch a few fixed-wing or helicopters at low altitude and low speed or even in the state of takeoff and landing, causing some losses.

The Thunderhawk armed transport gunship roared in, and the rocket-jet composite engine driven by the subatomic reactor made a deafening roar.