Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

On the blue star.

China's attack on Borneo is indeed reaching a stalemate.

——Even though its combat effectiveness has increased a lot and it has embarked on a comprehensive revival, China is still very weak in the "overseas military power projection" link.

There's no way around it, it's a notorious shortcoming in the past.

Among the five gangsters of Blue Star, China is the only country that has never engaged in large-scale overseas colonization.

Before the catastrophe, among so many first-tier powers, China was one of the few players who had not been guilty of the original sin of being a "colonizer".

There is a reason why Su Wen always likes to emphasize the moral system.

Judy put together so much national power and resources and a mighty fleet to sail to the Western Ocean seven times.

As a result, we recruited a group of young men and started some trade. There was not even an actual colony. What we had was at most a transit station similar to the old port...

It would have been impossible for Baipi to be so peaceful and friendly.

Civilizations with a moral system and civilizations without a moral system are fundamentally different.

On the first day he landed in America, Columbus raped a nine-year-old indigenous girl;

And China, which has been in East Asia for five thousand years, has not even touched the nearby Japanese country except for a tribute system that secretly harvests the essence of the vassal states and controls the pricing power.

From a moral point of view of good and evil, as one of the victims of the colonial era, China does have every reason to criticize these 'executors covered in blood and filth.'

...but it's undeniable.

Without the historical experience of large-scale overseas expansion and overseas colonization, China is seriously lacking in experience in this area.

As for the various internal conflicts caused by seclusion, stubbornness in one corner since ancient times, and the inability to transfer to the outside world... there is no need to say more.

It’s still the classic truth.

——Despicableness is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.

If pretending to be noble is not enough and you still have to be arrogant, then your life will really be too long.

If the interests that can be fought for are not obtained, the vassal states that are willing to surrender will voluntarily give up.

Then in the future, you will only deserve to be strangled by the Yankee island chain one by one, and be locked in several footbaths and blame yourself;

Later, he suddenly realized that in order to break through the blockade of the island chain and take the initiative to go to the deep blue,

I want to fight for overseas bases again.

For the price paid, it will no longer be as light as before.

Whether it’s ASEAN or the Belt and Road Initiative, they are all making up lessons.

Zambia's kidney-selling railway, endless aid projects in Africa, hundreds of billions of manpower and material resources wasted on 'foreign friendship' every year, and even those Nico minibuses that come in and enjoy the treatment of others... This is the price of the overseas strategy that was delayed for more than a thousand years.

The predecessors regarded overseas countries as small countries and looked down upon those 'petty profits';

They regard natural science as a fancy skill and cling to the Four Books and Five Classics and refuse to take the broad road.

Then the descendants deserved to be killed in rivers of blood by the powers that had eaten their fill of colonial dividends, and were almost exterminated.

We still have to spend tens or hundreds of years of effort and the blood and tears of countless people to make up the hard work.

All acts of laziness and slackness, even if they rise to the level of the country and civilization, will sooner or later have to pay the price.

It’s just a matter of when to pay.

As for the current Borneo strategy, which the Southern Army has made stumbling, it is also just part of the price.

...Of course, many things cannot be solved simply as an afterthought.

The reason why problems left over from history become problems left over from history is because there was no proper way to solve them, or the opportunity to solve them was not seized...

From this point of view, simply blaming the predecessors and making hindsight of the ancients is meaningless in itself.

but...

...and no buts.

With the national character of Chinese civilization, it is impossible to do this kind of authoritarian expansion. It is useless no matter what.

In the five thousand years of Chinese history, China has gone through countless political systems and authorities. Except for the foreign colonial period such as the Five Hu Meng Yuan Dynasty, in any era where Han civilization and Han culture are the main tone, the idea of ​​​​"outer sage and inner king" has always been Main theme.

This kind of thinking is destined not to gain the heartfelt awe and respect of foreigners.

After all, the saying 'barbarians fear power but not morality' is more than just words.

The more you think about giving favors, winning over, and naturalizing, the less likely foreigners will be loyal to you.

I will only think that this is a man who likes to throw money around and is stupid and has a lot of money.

...This kind of thing itself is very unreasonable.

China has experienced the situation of selling kidneys for aid only to be bitten back by others so many times.

It can even be said that every neighboring country, and even every country in the world that has received favors from China, has bitten China in return.

...This is also a sad story.

While exporting trade, promoting authoritarianism, and constantly launching wars, this is a standard colonial style, but the benefits are disgraceful.

However, if we only export trade without exporting authority, we will gain ridicule and contempt from others, which is not a good thing.

"Favor given cheaply is like fine porcelain. It looks majestic but is actually fragile."

"Only majesty made of iron and fire, blood and death can stand as long as cold steel."

Su Wen took the intelligence collection that had just been collected by the Ministry of National Defense about what happened in Borneo during this period.

Watched in silence.

Frederick, who was beside him, commented with a sneer.

Faced with her comments, Su Wen could only remain silent.

Speechless.

——China’s Borneo strategy has not yet achieved anything.

From the intelligence point of view, it is certainly affected by various factors such as Borneo being far overseas, supply lines being unblocked, and the military lacking experience in dealing with large numbers of sea beasts in the ocean.

However, the more important part is that they failed to deal with the local indigenous people.

...It cannot be said that it has not been done, it should be said that they have not done it at all.

——The military was already prepared to coerce and lure local survivor organizations, 'create claims', and 'lease land'.

When I got there, I realized that I had thought too far ahead:

There are not even a few decent organizations in Borneo, not even a few survivor groups.

A plate of loose sand, a complete plate of loose sand.

They were in chaos with each other and even fought against each other.

There are quite a lot of people:

There were millions of people alive on the large island that had a population of tens of millions before the catastrophe.

This survival ratio is completely jaw-dropping.

However...

There are many people, but they are not organized;

Not only was it unorganized, it was also severely degraded.

Through subsequent contacts, the Southern Army learned that they managed to survive by breaking into pieces and fleeing into hibernation in the central rainforest.

When the Southern Legion men found the gathering place of these Borneo survivors...

What appeared in front of them was a bunch of primitive people.

The rainforest zone in central Borneo was extremely underdeveloped even in the pre-catastrophic era.

It is a primitive rainforest in the standard sense. Until the Cold War, there were still Dayak headhunters operating in it - these guys were really ruthless. During World War II, they were so reckless that they broke up the Americans and fled to the rainforest. The Japanese troops there were captured and barbecued by the organized area.

If there could be a ranking list for these primitive tribes that have survived to modern times, these guys would definitely be at the top.

Even in the 20th century, in places where a large number of primitive tribes still exist, it is completely conceivable how low the level of construction is.

Even before the catastrophe, the Indonesian authorities' governance in this area was much better, even much better than the original world before Su Wen traveled, but...

...However, no matter what, it is impossible for the hinterland of central Borneo to support millions of people with such tragic infrastructure.

Unfortunately.

The local survivors in Borneo had nowhere else to go.

If it were before the catastrophe, on a tropical island like theirs with a wild hinterland, they would definitely live as close to the sea as possible.

The transportation is convenient and the seaside scenery is like the Maldives. Isn’t this great?

But after the catastrophe, it became a bad dish:

——If you don’t quickly hide in the hinterland away from the coast, then you’re just waiting to be crushed into dregs by the tide of marine beasts!

Sea beasts are a large category,

There are many species of amphibians and reptiles among them.

Many of them can move along the coast for a long time and can even live ashore close to water sources.

Because of this, the local survivors were forced to desperately hide deep in a wild rain forest.

The more you hide, the more numb you become.

Lack of food, lack of housing, no medical care, no infrastructure...

Famine, plague, animal tides, man-made disasters...

For various reasons, many of the Southern Legion's population had been wiped out before they arrived.

According to the military's understanding, in the early days of the catastrophe, at least four to five million Indonesians fled from cities along the coasts of East, South, and North Borneo to the hinterland of Central Borneo. Those who successfully arrived alone were at least four to five million.

By the time they arrived, there were only one million zero left.

Even thanks to the fertile land and extremely rich product resources in Southeast Asia, the food pressure is much better than other places at the same time.

It has also been experiencing continuous attrition.

In order to compete for limited resources, they are still fighting against each other...

The entire Monkey Mountain was in chaos.

And those local residents who survived were like pieces of meat thrown into a meat grinder, being consumed constantly...