Great Power Technology

While Ye Zhou and Chen Hao were discussing strategies against the "Consciousness Uploading Alliance", thousands of kilometers away in Europe, a meeting targeting China was also being held.

All those attending the meeting were important figures from the so-called Confederate officialdom, and the issues they discussed could be regarded as one of the most serious and influential issues on the planet.

How to force the other party to compromise and give up the benefits it has gained without having a large-scale armed conflict with China and the so-called "Chinese Alliance"?

In fact, everyone who participated in the meeting knew that under the current comparison of strengths and weaknesses, if you only rely on the suppressive power brought by your own so-called "alliance", it is not enough to fight against the Chinese Alliance - or even just against China. The country is very difficult.

Therefore, from the very beginning of the meeting, the direction of their discussion has been basically determined, that is, to sort out all the trump cards in their own hands and in China's hands, and play out their trump cards one by one to form a local area. advantages, and then use this advantage to gradually expand one's own power and support.

"First, we need to identify our short-term and long-term goals."

"I believe that after many previous discussions, everyone is already quite clear on this point - in the long term, we must realize the picture of national consciousness uploading proposed by the Ark organization and help mankind survive the crisis with the lowest consumption of resources. "

"In the short term, we need to develop consciousness uploading technology and form an effective demonstration project."

"In order to achieve these two goals, the first thing we have to do is force China to hand over the BCI transmission compilation algorithm and neural signal database in their hands."

"As far as I know, both Chou Country and Ark Organization had contacted them in the early stage, but they were both rejected."

"In terms of attitude towards this technology, China has adopted a certain kind of 'strategic' caution from the beginning. Now that this kind of caution has been born, it will inevitably run through all their strategies. They want to use peaceful means to Access to technology is impossible.”

"The only effective method is war."

"Of course, the war I am talking about now is not a hot war in the narrow sense, nor is it a nuclear war - we should avoid contact with this kind of thing that will send the entire human race to hell."

"What we should choose is a more effective, lower-cost, and harder-hit method, such as launching a war in the economic and social fields."

The speaker was the white man sitting in the middle of the conference room, who was also the chief technical director of the consciousness uploading project, Minson.

In fact, according to the normal discussion process, as a technical staff, he should not participate in such strategic discussions. However, at present, officials in various countries have too little understanding of this technology, and they urgently need strong technical support. It also allowed Mingsen's status within the league to improve rapidly, directly entering the highest decision-making level.

And his performance also proved his own ability. In several previous meetings, he put forward many effective suggestions and led the alliance that originally only consisted of 6 countries to expand to nearly 30 countries in a short period of time. .

Everyone in this conference room was extremely convinced of him, but even so, when they heard him say that he wanted to "launch a war," there was still a look of hesitation on everyone's faces.

Start a war? To China?

This kind of rhetoric is extremely scary or extremely arrogant even if it goes back ten years. What's more, China has now become the de facto strongest on the surface. How can it be so easy to make them succumb through strong means?

"Mr. Minson, I understand your strategy. Of course, I also understand your appeal."

“As a technician, of course you want to use the simplest and most effective method to promote the sharing and advancement of technology.”

"But I have to tell you that such progress may not come so soon, because it is not as easy as you think to get technology from the Chinese."

"You talk about starting a war. That's a bold idea, but the question is, where do we start?"

"Currency, finance, food, energy, military. In all areas related to the distribution of world power, China has an absolute advantage. Are you trying to say, let us use food and oil to sanction the other side?"

"That's a very stupid method, because Ugly Country has already failed."

Hearing the other party's question, Mingsen shook his head and replied:

"No, of course not these."

"In fact, these methods are not only stupid, but also too benevolent and do not understand the weaknesses of our opponents at all."

"Is China afraid of our economic sanctions on them? Maybe they will be troubled by it, but they are definitely not afraid."

"Not to mention that they already have new energy, nuclear fusion, and the most advanced food technology in the world. In fact, if we go back ten years, even if they don't have these things, these means in the economic field will not pose a threat to them. "

“If we want to force them to compromise, we have to start with what they really care about.”

Seeing Mingsen's confident expression, the man who had questioned before frowned. After a moment of pause, he asked:

"So, what do you think they care about? Status? Technology? Rights? Or their own future?"

"No, neither."

Mingsen shook his head, with a hint of emotion on his expression.

"Actually, I think some of you in this room have already thought of the answer, but you haven't spoken out - perhaps out of shame?"

"Because what Chinese people care about most is exactly what we claim to protect but have never really worked hard for."

"It's people, and human rights."

After his words fell, the conference room fell silent as he expected, but Mingsen had been prepared for this. He did not dwell too much on this awkward atmosphere, but continued:

"No matter what, what they care about most is their own lives and rights. You may think that their protection of these rights is not adequate, and you have seen many cases of so-called harm to human rights, but the problem is, they absolutely do not would allow these rights to be undermined by outside forces."

"So, our strategy is simple: we want to exchange the rights of the Chinese people for their technology."

"How to do it?"

Everyone in the conference room was confused. They could understand the general logic, but they couldn't figure out how Mingsen wanted to make this logic come true.

"It's simple, we're going to 'take hostages'."

"Taking hostages? Where did the hostages come from??"

"Their overseas personnel include all Chinese people living in our country."

Hearing Mingsen's words, everyone in the conference room was shocked. Even the high-level decision-makers who had seen the world showed a bit of disbelief.

Only then did they discover that Mingsen once belonged to the Hermes organization after all, and the madness in his bones did not diminish at all after leaving Hermes.

"Mingsen, don't be ridiculous. The consequence of this is war. You don't really think that at the level of national confrontation, they will make compromises for the interests of a few people, do you?"

"The moment you announce that you are taking these people as hostages - no, the moment you reveal such an intention, their intercontinental missiles will be aimed at your head!"

Mingsen nodded slightly and then said:

"So we need to rely on the power of public opinion - do you remember the hostage incident in 1979? At that time, the Ugly Country was one of the most powerful countries on the planet, but why did they take advantage of the hostage incident for a full half a year? Then, did you adopt an armed rescue strategy?”

"The core of the problem is people."

"We can't let the officials take action, we have to let the people take action. Do you understand what I mean?"

"This is actually a game. Yes, the BCI transmission and compilation algorithm is very important to us and to China, but its importance must be limited."

“When the cost of refusing to hand over technology exceeds its value, they have to compromise.”

"So, what we need to do is actually very simple, that is, let the people fight on their own, while we mediate, delay the resolution of the problem as much as possible, and at the same time promote the development of public opinion in China, forcing them to fight in a hurry make decisions under circumstances.”

"Believe me, they will compromise because there is a paradox."

"They neither want war nor can they sit idly by and ignore their fellow citizens."

"This is their biggest weakness. As long as we grasp this weakness, we will have the leverage to negotiate with them."

Everyone in the conference room remained silent, everyone was thinking about the feasibility of this matter.

The strategy proposed by Minson is too crazy and too crude, but as he said, judging from historical cases, such a strategy seems to be very effective.

Whether it is iran in 1979, libya in 2020, or Ukraine in 2020, this strategy has played a huge role.

Of course, their final result is war, but in this operation, war may not necessarily happen.

Because mankind also has a common enemy.

So, this strategy seems to be feasible?

A few minutes later, a man suddenly spoke:

"I think we could give it a try."

"We can start with soft and moderate measures, and if they are effective, we can gradually become tougher."

"We have nothing to lose, right?"

Hearing the man's words, Mingsen had a smile on his face, and he said:

"Of course, of course."

"Believe me, not only will we not lose anything, we will also gain more, additional benefits."