Regarding the empire's "brilliant power", in addition to letting rulers or representatives from small countries be in awe, there is also an unexpected gain, that is, arms sales.

The purchase of advanced war weapons may not necessarily be to cope with the war, or to voluntarily erupt the war. In large part, it is actually to scare the restless neighbors around.

War is not a simple matter. Only when the demands are not met can war break out, and before that, the dividends brought by the war can be determined to cover the losses during the war.

The more scientific and technologically developed the civilization, the more cautious the attitude towards war. This is not related to any humanitarian concern, but simply because it is a waste of money to fight too much.

Every advance of one meter in the front line of the war means that tens of thousands of dollars of funds are wasted on this meter of land. Some countries can't fight modern wars because of poverty.

Modern warfare is not the same as the ancient cold weapon war. The cold weapon era fought population and renewable resources. Modern warfare fought money.

In the war of the Empire ’s invasion of the Commonwealth, they only advanced two lines of defense. In the short two-month war, the Empire divided the war funding into more than 170 million five times.

The 200,000 soldiers were invested before and after, but the salaries of these soldiers consumed more than 30 million each month, not to mention the ammunition consumed in the process, and the maintenance and damage of some war machinery.

Fortunately, in the end, this money was recovered and made a lot. If it was not the plan to surprise St. Lodo with unprecedented success, it successfully robbed the federal bank. Maybe even if it wins the war, it will eventually face With huge losses.

It's like the Federation was forced to sit on the side of the negotiating table after the Union's vanguard in the Civil War fell into the siege of Otis.

In the case that the war has consumed the huge financial and material resources of the Federation, if there is still a huge amount of pensions and other funds, and the cost of forming a new army to fight the battle again, even if the Federation hardens, it may not be Also take the initiative to withdraw.

So how to effectively prevent the sudden outbreak of war?

Confrontation in strength. If the military forces of the two countries are maintained in a relatively balanced state, the war will be difficult to break out, because if they cannot fight, they can only be resolved through diplomatic means, commonly known as bullshit.

These arms sales will not trigger wars in other regions, but they will trigger arms races in other regions. This is actually a good thing for the empire. At least when one day the world is using empire-style weapons to fight, who will be Dare to accept the empire's ruling, cutting off their supplies is enough to make them burned.

This afternoon's visit left many participants deeply impressed. The power of the empire is no longer just a word on the surface, but a real truth.

The horrible war machine with a height of ten meters or more made these people tremble. Even if some people had other thoughts hidden in their hearts, they were cancelled at this time.

This is not destined to be a quiet night. The telephone and telegraph channels are almost occupied. The radio waves carry various kinds of information across the distance of the space, and become quiet after several transits.

机构 The institutions on Empire Avenue are also busy all night long. Some delegations of military enterprises are riding on the train to the capital. The battleship formations outside the headquarters of the Imperial Navy are slowly leaving the port to the nearest military port to the capital.

杜 Even Du Lin didn't rest early because he was not used to going to bed early.

"This is why you dominate TV?", Kinsale was very dissatisfied and ate fruit and complained about Du Lin's behavior.

八 At eight o'clock in the evening, it should have been the TV show time, but Du Lin seized the TV and watched a political talk show that she didn't find fun.

The host of the show constantly adjusted the atmosphere of the scene to make the gunpowder smell stronger. From time to time, a sharp question was inserted to make the four politicians participating in the show spit and yell at each other.

The show tonight has a lot to do with what is happening. Under the operation of the cabinet, the title of this evening's show is "Toughness or Tenderness", and its core has a direct relationship with the ifto that is happening.

Twenty-four politicians have stood on the stance of hardliners and warmhearted parties, respectively, to discuss the foreign policy of the current empire.

This stance with obvious conflicts brought out the atmosphere of the show as soon as it came up. The politicians were well-dressed for less than ten minutes, and they began to tear up their ties from the sofa, walked to the opponent and pointed at their nose Scolded silly.

In fact, this should be an entertaining political talk show, but it is still assigned to the serious current affairs channel, and it is also well received by the audience.

Confrontation is ubiquitous. From gender confrontation, class confrontation, to rich and poor confrontation, people are willing to devote themselves to the wave of confrontation, even TV programs.

The audience often wrote to the program group and greeted all the members of the program group with a fragrant tone. They said that the love and care of their families was because of the broadcast of this program. The huge social effect also made this program from ten in the evening. Click on the file and mention the eight o'clock directly.

Dulin pretended not to hear Kinsale's complaints, but persuaded, "If you can get involved, maybe you will find this is much better than the TV series."

Kinsel shrugged his shoulders, and the boring can only follow Du Lin, and looked at her and asked curiously, "What will you do in the end?"

Du Lin did not answer, but just let her continue to watch the program. In fact, the Cabinet and TV Group had commissioned five investigative agencies to conduct more than 500,000 questionnaires.

In these questionnaires, 69% believed that the empire should be tough on foreign affairs. Only 27% said they should give more respect to the international community. Others said It doesn't matter.

So this show will eventually be arranged according to the results of polls. In fact, there are no references such as ratings. Politicians who stand in a tender position will be dumbed down.

Limited toughness and limited tenderness are the most appropriate ways.

之后 After the show, Du Lin returned the option to Kinsale. He rubbed his neck and prepared to wash and sleep. There will be a full day of meetings tomorrow.

As soon as he left the sofa to prepare to go upstairs, a sound was heard from the outside of the TV, stopping his footsteps.

"According to the reporter, the women who had made a movie and became popular throughout the empire, Vinda and Magellan, settled in a hotel last night, and only came out together in the morning. As Vinda said, they are in love ..."

Du Lin walked back to the sofa and sat down. He continued to watch some blurry pictures taken by reporters on the TV screen. Although Vinda was wearing sunglasses and a peaked cap, anyone who knew her could recognize her at a glance.

He turned to look at Kinsale, "Maybe we should talk about this ..."

"What's the matter?", Kinsale ate the cut fruit from the fruit plate. In order to maintain her figure, she would only eat fruit at night when there was no entertainment, "You mean Vinda is in love? Come on, she will be two soon. Ten years old, already a big girl, she can decide her own life. "

"Before she was twenty, these were not working, I remember I said!"

Kinsel was very upset in the face of Dolin's overbearing tone. "You are just her brother, not her father, Mr. Kesma!"

"But outside of alfalfa town, everything must be as I say!", Du Lin's tone became stronger and stronger, "this is why I blame you for bringing her into this circle, you There may be a way to deal with it all, but she is still a little girl, she is not ready, and she is not yet an adult. "

"You're more and more like Mr. Kesma, Doolin, even the tone of the speech is the same ...", Kinsale put the fruit plate back on the table and stood up. "I don't think it's a discussion now At times, you should be concerned about national affairs, not such small things. "

Du Lin laughed twice, "If we don't discuss this issue clearly, you may regret it at this time tomorrow morning." (At nine o'clock in the morning, when the daily newspaper is printed)

Kinsale froze for a while, then realized what Du Lin said just now, and she sat down again, grabbing her own hair and screaming, "Are you crazy? Because of such a thing Trivia, you have to ... hurt others? "

"Little thing? If Mr. Kosma suddenly appears in front of me, he will still hit me ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ I don't think this is a trivial matter!", Du Lin's tone also gradually increased, "Ksma Mr. is already old, I do n’t want some people to make a stupid decision to let him run across half of the empire and run in front of me and ask me why this is the case. Maybe you have been in that circle for a long time and think this is normal , But in my opinion, it's not normal. "

"A disgusting third-rate actor has used a little girl in order to become popular, which is shameful, Kinsale!"

At this point, Kinsale was already crying and laughing while having a little irritability, "You can't decide other people's lives."

"My decision is the life and future of millions of people!"

"If you are always like this, we can't communicate, Du Lin, maybe in the eyes of others, you are the governor, a very great existence in the empire, but here I am, you are just my family. You should not be so It's not fair for Vinda to decide on Dukai's life. "

Du Lin didn't care about this. "Before she was independent, the first thing she had to learn was to be obedient, otherwise I would cut off all her resources and send her back to the town of alfalfa. I heard that the blacksmith's son liked her very much? "