National Juggernaut

Chapter 408 Undercurrent
The moment he suddenly looked back, Zheng Licai realized that many things could no longer be turned back.

"Half a year ago, I was just a salted fish waiting to die. How come I'm thinking about those things for no reason."

While the other team members were happily making big purchases and digesting the huge benefits they had exchanged for their lives, Zheng Li was dragged into a bunch of boring and uninteresting things.

I followed Long Biao to several semi-official gatherings, and watched the amicable and friendly bigwigs on TV, sneering at each other in private, and sneering at each other, Zheng Li discovered that in the current chaos in Xingping City, there are vaguely Boring politics.

The single-city plan has already succeeded, but the twin-city plan has only just begun, and its success is not yet certain. These people are already thinking about future land division and profit distribution.

The Yanzhou people who are good at business hope to take over the trade channels of the dozen or so worlds, at least temporarily manage them until the new channels are stabilized. Their request is in the name of the past. In order to deter other ethnic groups, the people of Ayutthaya, the new resident, are willing to contribute more than [-]% of the resources.

To put it simply, in the preliminary plan they gave, they are willing to pay an astronomical price to build another big city in the place of the original digital city.

However, as a return for investment, they are required to give them access to resources, and the promised distribution to other cities remains unchanged. Xingping people get 200% of the commercial tax for nothing, and the lease term is [-] years.

Everyone knows that if it is really entrusted to them, it is hard to say whether it will be taken back after 200 years. Even if everything goes smoothly, the people of Yanzhou will not take out the commercial channels they have eaten.

But this upfront investment
"I'll go, just take out the resources of a big city? It's really rich and powerful. Is this the background of the first city in the middle of the country?"

On such an occasion, Zheng Li had no possibility to speak. He just sat in the back row, listened and recorded silently, and was shocked repeatedly.

Is this a proposal from Yanzhou people?This is a bet that your two-city strategy fails, you must accept foreign aid, and then ask to participate in the distribution of benefits in resource channels and business routes.

"I won't agree to this, won't this become a colony? Xingping City, a sub-city of Yanzhou City?"

The calculators are not stupid, no one knows that this is taking advantage of the fire.

On the spot, the third-largest calculator who led the team to negotiate turned red with anger, and it was powerful enough to make such an indifferent figure so popular.

But in the end, the big planner still didn't say something like "Even if the two-city strategy fails, I don't want your support".

After all, no one can predict the next development.

Infighting before it even started?The Yanzhou people's taking advantage of the fire is not the most invaluable thing.

The representative of Ten Thousand Orcs said, "If our commitment has been fulfilled, the loss this time will be heavy, and the scheduled resource compensation must be doubled at least.", "Damn, if we don't pay, we will go back.", " Do not agree to the conditions? We will report to the other side."

The original words were not this, but Zheng Li chewed up the official diplomatic vocabulary, and it almost meant that, especially when he slapped the table at the end and said that he wanted to be a "rapist", other people also looked calm, which seemed to happen often.

The Xiujiang people who had a good impression on Zheng Li were not so kind anymore. They said bluntly that they were under a lot of pressure on the front line and had to give more adequate returns, at least a certain amount of future business shares and tax-free business quota.

At the same time, it also requires basic training techniques for calculators, as well as the overall refitting of at least two legions, and a series of supporting commercial logistics services, including the training of post stations and repair stations for a minimum of ten years.

It can be seen that Xiujiang people are very interested in the war technology of the digital city.

The Northern Poets didn't want anything, they just fanned the flames all the way and didn't do any human affairs. The room chief Long Biao told Zheng Li in private that the two cities had already negotiated in private, and now they are helping the digital people to stand on the platform.

As a hard-core ally of digital humans, only Shi Qiancheng was relatively calm, and did not take the opportunity to make too embarrassing demands, but just said a few official nonsense like "we must ensure the smooth flow of commercial passages to the south", Express the attitude of "don't cheat me, don't touch what I have".

Zheng Li was really an eye-opener. The way these normally kind big men patted the table and pointed at the other side was really impressive. I am afraid that watching the TV news in the future will be completely different from the previous feeling.

And when the party was over, when Long Biao and the others went out with other people, Zheng Li was even more shocked by one sentence.

"Heh, it turned out to be a good talk this time. I thought they would collapse."

"Yeah, everyone is very restrained. It seems that they all hope that the two-city strategy will succeed."

This is called restraint?This is called friendliness?Zheng Li felt that he probably had a fake meeting.

As for the private situation, Long Biao also had a chat with Zheng Li, and Zheng Li asked his own question.

"Of course it's friendly, there's no fight, and there's no military threat. Don't you still hold the idea of ​​the unity of mankind? Although young people often lack experience, you don't look like such a naive person. It seems that, You did the right thing to come with me.”

Zheng Li was speechless, but if he thought about it carefully, he was indeed naive.

"Every city has to be responsible for its own people, and it is completely reasonable to compete for the interests of its own city. This is already open and friendly enough. You haven't seen the private conversations. The civil war in the big city is not once or twice. You treat us and Is it a covenant between the two parties that Digital City is so friendly?"

Zheng Li shook his head, from the attitudes of other city representatives towards Long Biao and others, Zheng Li also saw a lot.

Long Biao took a deep drag on his cigarette, and looked at the busy scene outside the window.

"We don't grab it because we are the weakest. We are still digesting the different worlds and territories around us. We don't have enough combat power to take over such a long-distance commercial route. We have been excluded from the core interest competition circle from the very beginning. Obviously we Geographically the closest."

Under Long Shichang's statement, the official propaganda was overturned one by one, and all the messy things floated on the paper.

"According to the usual practice, when you ask for help from other big cities, you must be mentally prepared to bleed heavily. As long as they do this, they are already quite sincere."

All cities are allies, but they are also competitors. When facing foreign enemies, they are united like brothers, but when competing for interests, they are united like cousins ​​when sharing inheritance.

Naturally, these things will not be spread through official channels. On the contrary, friendship between cities is the main theme.
"In the final analysis, each city is a country, and it takes everything for its own people. It is much worse for the same people outside. We may have originated from Pingning City in the past, but now we are the six major countries. Don’t be overly influenced by the things in the dream, but it’s really good to have a big picture, and it’s too sad for young people to be so preoccupied like us old fritters.”

What Long Biao said was somewhat contradictory, but Zheng Li could understand it.

Today, when the conflict between foreign races and human beings is so intensified, who would not expect a great union of mankind, but the reality is that each family has limited spheres of influence and resources, so they must give priority to their own race.

When facing foreign races, you can sacrifice everything to seek the survival and prosperity of the race, but when fighting for internal interests, especially living space and living resources, there are no means you can't use.

"When the situation gets a little better, do you start fighting among yourself? You really deserve to be a human being."

Zheng Li still sighed a little, but Long Biao made Zheng Li choose to shut up after a few words.

"Heh, don't you feel pain in your back when you stand and talk? Don't talk too far, just talk about the reality. We don't fight for it, can you get 'benefits'? This time, many of your rookie battle groups are participating in the battle in their own name, so, die Who will pay the pensions for those boys who have lost their lives? This is what we fought for. You can see the exchange library, the data tree is also obtained by taking pictures of the table, who doesn't think about their own boys?"

Well, as a beneficiary, what else can Zheng Li say.

Who doesn't expect good things to be left to their own people, and who doesn't want to pay a little price to get reinforcements. The relationship between the six cities cannot be simply described as allies and competitors. There are no such annoying disputes and infighting. The final cooperation and balance cannot be reached.

If there is a problem, if there is contention, it is a good thing to be able to talk and quarrel. What is afraid is that you will not be able to get to the negotiating table and start working directly. It is no wonder that Long Biao said before that the negotiation is good now. At least, no one really made unacceptable demands. , that is tantamount to withdrawing from this alliance.

What is an unacceptable request?Permanent land cession, benefit distribution, population migration, and core technology transfer, now other cities simply want to share, money, resources, and technology, all of which can be discussed.

Now, even if there may be a large-scale conflict of interest, it is a post-war matter. After the negotiation table, everyone is still a close comrade-in-arms.

"You have to pay attention to our position in the future. Our history of moving the city is too short. We haven't fully grasped the scope of the current territory, and we don't need to expand it for the time being. Therefore, in this case, we will take the initiative to take a step back and strive for the treatment of the soldiers who participated in the war as much as possible. .When your generation rises up, the situation will be different again.”

At this time, Zheng Li also somewhat understood why he was dragged out to listen in. In the eyes of these old guys, pure fighters can be simple, but Zheng Li himself is probably destined to be the kind that cannot be pure.

Then, instead of being educated by reality later, or making serious predictions of huge losses because of "naivety", it is better to come out early and see what is real.

It is unbelievable to Zheng Li that while high-level politics are wrangling, military cooperation is steadily advancing.

"While arguing and cooperating at the same time, the comrades in arms under the table are as close as brothers, really."

Long Biao laughed.

"Just get used to it, this is our job. If it affects the soldiers on the front line, it is our fault. Remember, when necessary, we would rather go home separately than force cooperation. No one can bear it." The knife in the back. Remember to push the knife to the four gods when it really appears."

(End of this chapter)