Blackstone Code Chapter 268: The relationship between war and money

The war-weariness of the Commonwealth originated from some battlefield documentaries in the initial stage of the World War. Some reporters from the Commonwealth went to the forefront of the war with the intention of taking their lives, interviewed and filmed a lot of material and sent them back to the Commonwealth.

These war reporters did quickly become household names throughout the Federation, but they didn't realize, and the people of the entire Federation didn't realize that it was these real battlefield records that made the Federation people start to fear war. .

Considering the difficulty of recording videos on the battlefield, these videos are all in the form of silent films, from the first frame to the end of the last second, without any sound at all.

On TV, in the movie theater, people may still be laughing and looking forward to the front line. After all, there has been no war here for a long time, and there is no friction with other countries.

People have long forgotten the cruelty of war, and only remember the romance that does not exist in war. A few years before the outbreak of the war, someone still made a film that won an award, called "Beauty in Fire" , romantic love and romantic war, which left an arguably wrong impression on the two generations of the Commonwealth who had not experienced war.

It wasn't until these real images began to hit people's hearts that people realized that war was not romantic or expected.

Bullets, invisible bullets, like the scythe of the **** of death, randomly and arbitrarily harvest life on the battlefield. There are constantly soldiers in the picture who suddenly shake their bodies backwards, or lift their heads, and the whole person quickly collapses and twitches A few times it became a corpse.

There is no sound of bullets whizzing, no screams before death, watching some soldiers who are not dead show their frighteningly miserable faces and howling silently under the camera, every federal person is excited from the excitement , looking forward, turned silent.

Every broadcast is like this, people start to keep silent, brutal wars break everyone's unrealistic illusions, there is no love, there is no battle of wits, there are only executions and executions.

One after another died, one after another, there was a memorable scene, a cannonball fell beside the war correspondent, the camera fell to the ground after a quick shake, followed by some black The liquid covered part of the lens.

Then the camera appears to be picked up, but then falls back to the ground, shaking, and a war correspondent collapses in front of the camera, with several fragments penetrating directly through his body.

He knelt on the ground with his **** pouted, his upper body hanging limply on the ground. This funny picture makes people laugh, because a fresh life is dying.

He vomited blood, a bit like the feeling of nausea, his chest was bulging, and then a big mouthful of blood flowed out of his mouth and nostrils, followed by some blood foam .

He wasn't completely dead at this point. He tried to straighten up, but he was running out of strength. His arms pushed the ground a few times and he couldn't support his body. His chest was heaving more and more. Violently, in the end, his body trembled violently a few times, and everything was calm.

He died with his eyes on the camera, as if he had foreseen his final fate, and he left the Commonwealth with no fear or courage he might have wanted to show about death, or admonitions or something. , he only left the Federals with endless fear.

Everyone is afraid of death. When people watch a Federalist die on the battlefield in such a tragic way and die in front of the camera, people clearly see the pain, struggle and powerlessness in the last half-minute of his life. The war-weariness erupted in an instant.

You must know that before this, the Federation did not actually consider pursuing an isolation policy, and even the president and the presidential cabinet at that time were still considering the issue of standing in line, and they planned to actively join it.

But this inexplicable and sudden wave of war weariness instantly gave the Conservative Party a stage to display. They obeyed the people's justice, proposed isolationism, and won the support of all the people.

Everyone is afraid of death, not only for themselves, but for their relatives and friends to die on the battlefield, like a reporter on camera.

So when Lynch mentioned the word "war" on such an occasion, the entire hall was almost silent.

In fact, it is not just the bottom of the society that has war weariness. This kind of emotion is like an infection, which makes the middle and high-level society also have war weariness.

Of course, war weariness doesn't mean they don't want to engage with the international community, that's not the same thing.

Everyone was watching Lynch. Lynch was extraordinarily calm. He didn't seem to be at all timid because of the eyes of the countless big men.

He smiled calmly and reservedly, standing a little outside the crowd, Ceverella looked at Lynch absentmindedly, for some reason, at this moment, she saw some of her father from Lynch's body shadow.

She doesn't know if it's right to describe it, but that's how she feels at the moment, it's just that Lynch is younger, but his temperament, bearing, his calmness, his confidence, and even his smile, all give A very special feeling.

Being able to trust what he said and what he did, felt safe, and felt that he was someone to rely on.

"Economic war?", the gentleman who asked the question before repeated, "This point of view is very novel and interesting. It seems that we have a good theme tonight, so Mr. Lynch, can you elaborate?"

Lynch nodded again to the gentleman, saying yes.

At the same time he also noticed a small detail, people are making way for this gentleman, which also indicates that he must be a great man, at least with a respectable identity.

"Of course, sir."

"You can call me Truman..."

At this time, Mr. Wardrick, who did not know where he came from, walked to a place not far from Lynch, and reminded softly, "Mr. Truman is currently the special adviser to the President's cabinet, responsible for the discussion and discussion of international policies. formulate."

Lynch expressed his gratitude to Mr. Wardrick, Special Advisor for International Policy, with a nod, which is no ordinary position.

Actually, Lynch had already heard a little news from other people two days before the event started. It is said that Mr. President decided to add a new office to the cabinet, called the "International Policy Research Office".

The job of this office is to study international trends and formulate policies against international trends, and it includes not only politics but also military, in other words it may not be so dramatic, but it is definitely a very important department.

Trumman is currently the highest-ranking officer of this yet-to-be-established office, and the President's most reliant international affairs/policy advisor.

As for Lynch's voice that felt a little familiar, it was actually because he had watched a political talk show that Truman performed with him.

In the process of overthrowing the old "Demon King" president and promoting the new president to take office, many people are working hard, and Truman is also involved.

This small interruption lasted less than thirty seconds before Lynch continued to state his point of view.

"I'm a businessman, and I sometimes see things differently than others."

"Looking at all the participating countries in this world war, I don't know if others have noticed, but I found something worthy of my attention, and that is the role and place of money in war."

"Wealth plays a much more important role in war than we think. Many people think that in war, as long as there are soldiers, it is necessary to have money, a lot of money."

"I've asked some arms dealers and they told me that even a small encounter, even a big victory, may knock out hundreds of thousands of ammunition, and at the same time there may be tens of thousands 100,000 battle losses."

"The end of this war, which has affected more than half of the world, is not because of who admits that they are on the wrong side. It's just that some people have no money and can't fight, so they have to surrender!"

"I think war is not only about fighting for military power, but also about the overall strength and wealth of the entire country!"

Lynch's tone was a little more serious, "especially money, the role of money in war is extremely important."

"We can have no one, but if we have money, we can hire people who are willing to risk money to fight for us!"

"But if we don't have money, even if each of our lads is not afraid of death, all the lads together will not be able to defeat a firepower company that is firmly on the ground!"

"Then can we change our minds a little bit, the war is not really about people, but money?!"

"If our goal is to make some forces surrender as if they were defeated, can it be achieved only through economic warfare without going through artillery fire?"

This idea is easily accepted by people~IndoMTL.com~ Even if many people here are fools, fools know that a small-scale encounter that wins can cost dozens of losses 10,000, then a large-scale battle would cost even more.

Many people showed a thoughtful look. They may have noticed this issue before, but they didn't study it in depth, or didn't think about it carefully.

Now Lynch suddenly brought these things out and said, it seemed that they suddenly realized something they didn't understand very well.

Especially in the last few sentences of Lynch, he directly named the core of what he said before. War is money. If you skip this link of specific people and directly make money, will you?

If you talk about war, the federal people may not be very good, of course, it may be very good. The federation has not participated in a large-scale group war, and no one knows whether the military power of the federation will work.

But if you want to talk about playing money, the strength of the Federation is definitely the first in the world!

For a while, the ideas that Lynch spread were implanted in the heads of some people, deeply implanted, and began to receive the watering of new ideas, and began to take root and sprout!