Cosma Empire

Regarding the "showing off" of the empire, in addition to aweing the rulers or representatives of these small countries, there is also an unexpected harvest, that is, arms sales.

The purchase of advanced war weapons is not necessarily to deal with wars, or to initiate wars. To a large extent, 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, it is necessary to be able to determine the dividends brought by the war, which are sufficient to make up for the losses during the war.

The more technologically advanced a civilization is, the more cautious its attitude towards war is. This has nothing to do with humanitarian care, but purely because wars are a waste of money.

Every meter advancing the front line of the war means that tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of funds are wasted on this meter of land. Some countries have not been able to fight modern wars until now because they are poor.

Modern wars are different from the ancient wars with cold weapons. In the era of cold weapons, population and renewable resources were fought, while money was fought in modern wars.

In the war of the empire's invasion of the Federation, it only advanced two lines of defense. In just two months of war, the empire allocated more than 170 million war funds in five times.

200,000 soldiers were invested before and after, and the salaries of these soldiers alone cost more than 30 million yuan a month, not to mention the ammunition consumed in the process, as well as the maintenance and damage of some war machines.

Fortunately, the money was recovered in the end and made a lot of money. If it wasn't for the unprecedented success of the surprise attack on San Lodo and the successful robbery of the Federal Bank, maybe even if the war is won, they will eventually face With huge losses.

It's like the Federation was forced to sit on the side of the negotiating table after the Federation's Vanguard Corps fell into the Odis siege in the Civil War.

When the war consumes a huge amount of financial and material resources of the Federation, if it still faces a huge amount of pensions and other payments, as well as the cost of forming a new legion to fight the battles that have been fought again, even if the Federation persists, it may eventually Also take the initiative to withdraw troops.

So how to effectively prevent the sudden outbreak of war?

In terms of strength confrontation, if the military strength of the two countries is maintained in a relatively balanced state, it will be difficult to break out of war, because it cannot be fought, and in the end it can only be resolved through diplomatic means, commonly known as wrangling.

These arms sales will not trigger wars in other regions,

But it will trigger an arms race in other regions, which is actually a good thing for the empire. At least one day when the whole world is using imperial-style weapons to fight, whoever dares to disobey the ruling of the empire and cut off their supplies will be Enough to make them burn out.

The visit in the afternoon left a very deep impression on many participants. The strength of the empire is no longer just a superficial sentence, but a real truth.

The hideous and terrifying war machines that were more than ten meters high made these people terrified. Even if some people had other thoughts hidden in their hearts, they were all dispelled at this time.

It was destined not to be a peaceful night, the telephone and telegraph channels were almost all occupied, and a section of radio waves carried various information across the distance of space, and became silent after several transfers.

The institutions on the Imperial Avenue are also busy all night long. Some delegations of military enterprises are taking the train to the imperial capital. The battleship formation outside the Imperial Navy headquarters is slowly leaving the port and heading for the nearest military port to the imperial capital.

Even Du Lin didn't go to bed very early, because he was not used to going to bed early.

"That's why you occupy the TV?" Kinsale was very dissatisfied, eating the fruit and complaining about Dooling's behavior.

Eight o'clock in the evening was supposed to be the broadcast time of the TV series, but Du Lin occupied the TV and watched a political talk show that she thought was not interesting.

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

Tonight's program has a lot to do with what's happening now. Under the operation of the cabinet, the title of this evening's program is "Toughness or Tenderness", and its core is directly related to the ongoing ifto.

The four politicians stood on the positions of hardliners and sentimentalists respectively to discuss the current foreign policy of the empire.

This kind of topic with clear positions and obvious conflicts set off the atmosphere of the show as soon as it came up. The politicians only stayed well-dressed for less than ten minutes, and then they began to tear their ties and stand up from the sofa, walked in front of their opponents and pointed at their noses Scold stupid beep.

In fact, logically speaking, this should be an entertaining political talk show, but it was still assigned to the serious current affairs channel, and it was also loved by the audience.

Confrontation is everywhere, from gender confrontation, to class confrontation, to rich and poor confrontation. People are willing to join in the wave of confrontation, even on TV.

Viewers often wrote letters to the program group and greeted all the program group with a fragrant tone, saying that the friendship and care among their families was due to the broadcast of this program, and the huge social effect also made this program start at ten o'clock in the evening. The dot file directly refers to the eight o'clock file.

For Kinsale's complaints, Du Lin pretended not to hear, but persuaded, "If you can put yourself into it, maybe you will find that this is much better than the TV series."

Jinsale shrugged his shoulders, bored and could only watch with Du Lin, and asked curiously after watching her, "What will you do in the end?"

Du Lin didn't answer, but just asked her to continue watching the show. In fact, the cabinet and the TV group had commissioned five investigation agencies to conduct more than half a million questionnaires before this.

In these questionnaires, 69 percent believed that the empire should show a tough stance in foreign affairs, and only 27 percent said that the international community should be given more respect, while others said It doesn't matter.

So this show will be arranged according to the results of the polls. In fact, there are no references such as ratings. In the end, politicians who stand on a warm stance will be rendered speechless.

Limited toughness and limited tenderness are the most appropriate way.

After the show ended, Du Lin returned the right to choose to Kinsell. He rubbed his neck and prepared to wash and sleep. There was still a whole day of meetings tomorrow.

Just as he left the sofa and was about to go upstairs, a sound came from the TV speaker, which made him stop.

"According to the reporter, Vader and Magellan, the women who became popular throughout the empire after only shooting one movie, checked into a certain hotel last night and didn't come out together until this morning. As Vader said before, they are in love..."

Du Lin walked back to the edge of the sofa and sat down, continuing to look at some blurred pictures captured by reporters on the TV screen. Even though Vader was wearing sunglasses and a peaked cap, people familiar with her could still recognize her at a glance.

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

"What are you talking about?" Kinsale ate the cut fruit from the fruit plate. In order to keep fit, she would only eat fruit at night when she was not socializing. "You mean Vader is in love? Come on, she's going to have a second soon." Ten years old is already a big girl, she can decide her own life."

"Before she's twenty years old, these things won't work, I remember I said that!"

Facing Du Lin's domineering tone, Kinsale was very unhappy, "You are just her brother, not her father, Mr. Kesma is!"

"But outside of Clover Town, everything must be done as I say!" Du Lin's tone became more and more tough, "That's why I blame you for bringing her into this circle, you May have her own way of dealing with it, but she's a little girl, she's not ready and she's not an adult yet."

"You are becoming more and more like Mr. Kesma, Dooling, even the tone of your speech is exactly the same..." Kinsale put the fruit plate back on the table and stood up, "I don't think this is the time to discuss this issue At this time, you should care about major national affairs, not such small things."

Du Lin laughed twice, "If we don't discuss this issue clearly, you may regret it by this time tomorrow morning."

Jinsale was stunned for a moment, and then she understood what Du Lin said just now. She sat down again, grabbed her hair and yelled frantically, "Are you crazy? Just because of such a thing Do you want to... hurt others for small things?"

"A small matter? If Mr. Kesma suddenly appeared in front of me and beat me up, I don't think it is a small matter!" Du Lin's voice gradually became higher, "Mr. Kesma is already old , I don't want him to run across half the empire to me and ask me why because of some stupid decision, maybe you've been in that circle for a long time and think it's a normal thing, but in my opinion , it's not normal."

"Shame on a disgusting third-rate actor who took advantage of a little girl to get popular, Kinsell!"

At this time, Kinsale was already dumbfounded and at the same time a little irritated, "You can't decide other people's lives."

"Mine determines the lives and futures of millions of people!"

"If you are always like this, we won't be able to communicate, Dulin, maybe in the eyes of others, you are the governor, a very remarkable existence in the imperial regime, but to me, you are just my family. You shouldn't be so It's not fair to Vader that the ducai decides other people's lives."

Du Lin didn't care about this, "Before she becomes independent, the first thing she has to learn is to be obedient, otherwise I will cut off all her resources and send her back to Alfalfa Town, I heard that the blacksmith's son likes her very much? "