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Chapter 177 (A Brief Overview of Reality - Do Not Subscribe if You Dislike It) The International Situation and Strategic Considerations of Eastern Xia on Blue Star
The meeting documents state their purpose clearly at the outset.

The current suppression of Dongxia is nothing more than a replay of the past.

The Earth has experienced two massive wars that swept across the world, and both were, without exception, challenges from emerging industrial nations to established industrial nations.

Well, it has little to do with warmongers, national character, geographical location, or historical grievances; it's just a desperate strike by a newly industrialized nation to break the blockade.

Since Earth entered the industrial age, the higher the level of industrialization, the more developed the country has become—this is an undeniable reality.

However, industrialization itself is a double-edged sword.

Whether it was the Twin Lion Federation, a pioneer of industrialization, or the rising star Bald Eagle, in order to solve the labor problem, industrialized countries first needed to convert a large number of agricultural people into industrial people and try every means to force them to participate in factory work, such as the land enclosure movement of the Twin Lion Federation in the past.

To solve the funding problem, the state had to tolerate foreign and domestic capitalists to a certain extent, exchanging profits and privileges for their investment, such as the Iron Cross national bonds of that time.

The massive investment in education and the sole focus on performance in order to solve technical problems can lead to intense involution and the emergence of certain powerful families, such as the bald eagle's letter of introduction system.

To solve the land problem required for industrialization, it is necessary to demolish and build simultaneously, sacrificing the individual to strengthen the collective and complete the concentration of land, so that infrastructure can play its maximum role, such as the comprehensive development of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent.

A country can generally resolve the aforementioned internal problems to a certain extent, provided it has a firm will, the perseverance to comprehensively promote industrial development, the power to break down existing interest groups, and the determination to sacrifice the interests of some people when necessary.

Of course, being able to do all this already makes one a top performer on Earth.

However, even if all the above problems are solved, there are still two external factors that cannot be completely resolved on their own: the input end and the output end.

That is, raw materials and the market!

In the First Great War on Earth, the Iron Cross Empire, a rising power, was far ahead in the most developed region of northern Earth in terms of core industrial indicators such as steel production and electricity. However, its market was firmly locked up.

As the dominant power at the time, the Twin Lions Kingdom implemented a comprehensive suppression of the Iron Cross Empire through a series of means, including but not limited to:

To win over allies, support small national governments, and limit the Iron Cross’s influence on other continents;

By leveraging its superior accumulation and reserves, it will implement the gold standard, create monetary hegemony, and achieve financial suppression of the Iron Cross Empire.

They lobbied relevant countries to impose a comprehensive technological blockade, prohibiting even a single blueprint from entering the Iron Cross Empire.

They frantically fabricated and spread the "Iron Cross threat theory," isolating the national environment of the Iron Cross Empire and inciting confrontational sentiments against the Iron Cross in neighboring countries.

Finally, high tariff barriers were established, and a "Twin Lions Federal State" agreement was created. Various tariffs, anti-dumping duties, national security and other pretexts emerged one after another, firmly keeping Iron Cross industrial products out of the Blue Star market.

Does this system look familiar? If it does, that's because it's familiar. Except for replacing the gold standard with the oil standard, or some future cryptocurrency standard, everything else is exactly the same.

A century of vicissitudes is nothing more than another cycle of history.

Under these circumstances, the locked Iron Cross quickly experienced intense internal conflicts.

Industrialization, while beneficial to a nation and its people, also has a serious side effect: it can only move forward, not backward.

No matter how much an agricultural country is blockaded, as long as the land produces enough food to eat, there won't be any major chaos.

However, if the hundreds of millions of industrial workers who have already been pulled from the farmland become unemployed on a large scale, then either they or the country will have to die.

Then the only option is to take action externally and forcibly break the blockade!
Regardless of which leader or government is in power, it is all the same; this is an inevitable trend in the course of history.

The Dongxia meeting documents included such a long list of background information, clearly intended to accommodate Chen Mo, who was not well-versed in the political climate.

Similarly, the Second Blue Star War was a continuation of the First War for the Iron Cross, while for the other initiator of the war, the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent Kingdom, it not only had its markets locked away but also its raw materials on the road to industrial development.

Four-Clawed Sea Serpent is an entirely island nation where the people revere multi-headed snakes. The country's four main islands are revered as the four claws of the sea serpent, hence the name.

The four-clawed sea serpent is extremely aggressive because the island it inhabits is resource-poor, and in order to develop, it must acquire land on the mainland.

The most absurd thing is that they gambled on the fate of the nation time and time again, and finally succeeded in acquiring vast tracts of land, population and resources. However, even after they frantically plundered everything in the occupied territories, they still could not meet the procurement needs of their industry, especially the military industry, for raw materials.

At that time, the bald eagle turned the four-clawed sea serpent into its blood bank by selling it military supplies such as cotton, crude oil, steel, and scrap steel.

The sea serpents were plundering wildly in front, while the white eagles were easily collecting money behind them. This caused the four-clawed sea serpents to become poorer and poorer, to the point that they could not make ends meet, and the people were almost unable to afford to eat.

In essence, there is no such thing as a just or unjust war. The Four-Clawed Sea Serpent's heinous blood debt to the Eastern Xia cannot be forgotten, and the Bald Eagle's military support behind the scenes is equally heinous.

Coincidentally, a philosopher from the Iron Cross Empire once said: "The only lesson mankind learns from history is that mankind learns nothing." The Iron Cross Empire practiced this very principle, and the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent is now on the path of yet another round of practice.

Meanwhile, Dongxia is striving to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

In the document, the elders in the family summarized it as follows: "The two wars on Earth were essentially challenges launched by emerging industrial countries against established industrial powers in order to break the blockade and seize raw material production areas and markets."

"At this moment, Dongxia is standing at a turning point in history. Many of the measures that were once imposed on industrial challengers are now binding Dongxia even more heavily."

"However, Dongxia's strategic environment is very different from that of previous challengers."

"First, Dongxia itself has abundant basic raw materials. Second, with the overall development of the international environment of the entire Blue Star, the reserves of resources have been fully explored. If this country doesn't sell, there will always be someone willing to sell; if this government doesn't sell, the next government will still want to develop the economy, it's just a matter of a slightly higher or lower price."

"The enemy can no longer blockade Dongxia on one or more materials."

"Secondly, Dongxia's large market itself has preserved the basic foundation for industrial development. Dongxia's long-term deep cultivation in developing and underdeveloped countries and regions has preserved the possibility of continuous industrial development."

"The only markets that can be sustained now are high-quality markets like bald eagles and the Northern Alliance."

"In short, although the environment in Dongxia is harsh, it is not so harsh that one should take risks, and the enemy's blockade will also come at a price."

"Our technology is still advancing, there are fewer and fewer technologies that can hold us back, our influence is still expanding, and we are constantly establishing new partnerships with various cooperative organizations and regional economic zones."

"Occasional setbacks do not affect the overall situation, and the enemy has fewer and fewer means to use."

"The tide rises and falls, time is in my hands!"

Having discussed the overall economic situation, the next important topic is military affairs!
"We can clearly see that the final result of each major war is that both emerging industrial powers and established industrial powers are severely damaged, while the ultimate victor is the Bald Eagle Federation, which has always remained on the sidelines and only intervenes at the last moment of each war."

"Therefore, although we already possess considerable military strength, we should not lightly initiate war."

"Ideally, even if the entire planet Earth were to be at war, we should learn from the bald eagle of that time, remain restrained, continue to maintain reasonable trade with the warring parties, and continue to wait for the right opportunity."

"During this period, on the one hand, we will rapidly iterate our equipment, showcase our technology, maintain sufficient military deterrence, and prevent the enemy from acting rashly. On the other hand, we will also keep certain forces in the enemy camp sober."

"On the other hand, by morally condemning the opponent, we can win broader public opinion support and complete the division of the opponent's forces."

"As long as we can maintain a basic balance with our competitors in the division of the Blue Star market, then after a period of time, we will be able to switch roles with the Bald Eagle."

"Bald eagles will be forced to become challengers and will need to use more aggressive means, both technologically and in the market, to challenge us."

Chen Mo's eyes scanned back and forth across the text, and he couldn't help but read it over and over again.

He was once a passionate young man, and he could empathize with the frustration of his predecessors who were preparing to "exchange eight planes for one attack opportunity," as well as the helplessness of being rammed, bombed, and having their ships intercepted.

Later, as the family grew stronger and their weapons became better, they reached the point where they could wield an iron hammer and nail anything in the world. Yet, Dongxia remained unmoved, which always filled the young children with righteous indignation.

Looking back now, there seem to be enough precedents in history.

The first episode, titled "Glorious Isolation," was executed by the first generation of Blue Star Industries, the Twin Lion Kingdom.

The content is not to conclude alliance treaties with other major powers during peacetime that involve long-term obligations, especially military obligations, and the core principle is to maintain full freedom of action.

The second event was called the "Monroe Doctrine," and it was carried out by the second-generation leader of Blue Star Industries, the Bald Eagle.

The core of the policy includes three principles: opposing the colonization of the Bald Eagle's sphere of influence by powerful nations, demanding that major powers not interfere in the Bald Eagle's surrounding affairs, and promising that the Bald Eagle will not intervene in the Northern World disputes.

Doesn't it look familiar?
If it looks familiar, that's why it's now called "non-interference"!
Dongxia really studied history seriously. They've been learning from others so much that they've practically ripped them out, and now they're even managing to find some profit in it.

Every country has its own choices, and Dongxia understands and respects this, even though the other party's actions are extremely egregious, it only expresses its condemnation.

What's that saying? I just quietly watched the enemy's corpses float downstream. Is that really what it means?

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　　Martial Arts: Becoming a God Starting from the Fallen Zone

　　Fifty years ago, a great cataclysm broke out, monsters invaded, and Mengtang Base City was declared lost, becoming a fallen zone marked by the Shenzhou Alliance, and has since been reduced to ruins.

　　Everyone thought Mengtang was deserted, but life always finds a way out. The survivors tenaciously took root and struggled to survive in the shadows.

　　Lu Chen transmigrated to this world, only to find himself in a shattered city, struggling desperately.

　　No, what happened to the promise of going to university, competing in tournaments, and eventually becoming a martial arts god?

　　How did it turn into Robinson Crusoe?
　　In this ruined area, overrun by monsters, Lu Chen lived in constant fear. At first, he just wanted to hold on until the heavenly soldiers of the Divine Alliance arrived, drove away the monsters, and saved Mengtang Base City.

　　Until, a 'Dao Talisman' appeared in Lu Chen's mind!
　　By infusing the essence of demonic beasts, one can deduce martial arts techniques and skills, and even refine simple techniques to their most perfect state!
　　Basic martial arts skills, one-click simulation!
　　No matter what kind of martial art it is, in Lu Chen's hands, it can all be transformed into unparalleled supernatural power!
　　From then on, the Mengtang Base City Fallen Zone gained an unparalleled genius with extraordinary comprehension and a pinnacle of martial arts!
　　With the mercy of Heaven, I will surely lead the surviving people of the fallen areas back to the land of China!

　　We must provide shelter for all the poor and needy, so that they may all rejoice!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)