Great Power Technology.

Chapter 536 Hostage
While Ye Zhou and Chen Hao were discussing the strategy against the "Consciousness Uploading Alliance", thousands of kilometers away in Europe, a meeting against China was also being held.

All the people attending the meeting were important figures from the so-called Confederate States, and the issues they discussed were among the most serious and influential issues on the planet.

How to force the other party to compromise and give up the benefits that have been obtained without a large-scale armed conflict with China and the so-called "China Alliance"?

In fact, everyone at the meeting knew that under the current strength and weakness comparison, if only relying on the oppressive force brought by the so-called "alliance" of one's own side, it would not be enough to fight against the Huaxia Alliance—or even against Huaxia alone. countries are difficult.

Therefore, from the very beginning of the meeting, the direction of their discussion has been basically determined, that is to sort out all the hole cards in their own hands and Huaxia's hands, and play out their own hole cards one by one to form a local area. advantage, and then use this advantage to gradually win over and expand the scope of influence and support of one's own side.

"First, we identify our short-term and long-term goals."

"I believe that after many discussions before, everyone is already quite clear about this point—in the long run, we want to realize the vision of uploading the national awareness proposed by the Ark organization, and help mankind survive the crisis with the lowest consumption of resources. "

"In the short term, we need to develop consciousness uploading technology and form effective demonstration projects."

"In order to achieve these two goals, the first thing we have to do is to force Huaxia to hand over their BCI transmission compilation algorithm and neural signal database."

"As far as I know, the Ugly Nation and the Ark organization had contacted them in the early stage, but they were also rejected."

"In terms of attitude towards this technology, Huaxia has adopted some kind of 'strategic' caution from the very beginning. Since this kind of caution has been born, it will inevitably run through all their strategies. They want to use peaceful means Access to technology is impossible."

"The only effective means is war."

"Of course, the war I'm talking about now is not a hot war in the narrow sense, let alone a nuclear war—this kind of thing that will send the entire human race to hell, we should avoid contact."

"What we should choose is a more effective, less costly, and more aggressive approach, such as waging war in the economic and social fields."

The person who spoke was the white man sitting in the middle of the conference room, and he was also the chief technical director of the consciousness uploading project, Mingsen.

In fact, as a technician, he should not be involved in such strategic discussions if the normal procedure is followed. However, officials in various countries currently know too little about this technology, and they urgently need strong technical support. It also made Mingsen's status within the league soar, and he directly entered the highest decision-making level.

And his performance also proved his own ability. In the previous meetings, he put forward many effective suggestions, and led the alliance originally composed of only 6 countries to expand to nearly 30 in a short period of time. .

Everyone in this conference room was extremely convinced of him, but even so, when they heard him say that he was going to "start a war", there was still a look of hesitation on their faces.

Start a war?To China?

This kind of rhetoric is extremely scary, or extremely arrogant, even if it goes back ten years, not to mention that China has become the de facto strongest on the surface. How can it be so easy to make them succumb by forceful means?

"Mr. Minsen, I understand your strategy, and of course, I also understand your appeal."

"As a technician, you certainly hope to use the simplest and most effective method to promote the sharing and advancement of technology."

"But I have to tell you that such progress may not come so quickly, because it is not as easy as you think to obtain technology from the Chinese."

"You talk about going to war, which is a bold idea, but the question is, where do we start?"

"Currency, finance, food, energy, military... These are all areas related to the distribution of power in the world. China has an absolute advantage. Don't you want to say, let's use food and oil to sanction each other?"

"That's really a very stupid method, because the ugly country has already failed."

Hearing the other party's question, Mingsen shook his head and replied:

"No, of course not."

"In fact, these methods are not only stupid, but also...too benevolent, and they don't see the weaknesses of our opponents at all."

"Are Huaxia afraid of our economic sanctions against them? Maybe they will be annoyed by it, but they will definitely not be afraid."

"Not to mention that they already have new energy, nuclear fusion, and the most advanced food technology in the world. In fact, even if they don't have these things, these means in the economic field will not be able to pose a threat to them. "

"If we want to force them to compromise, we must start with what they really care about."

Seeing Mingsen's confident expression, the man who questioned before frowned, and after a short pause, he asked:
"So, what do you think they care about? Status? Technology? Power? Or their own future?"

"No, neither."

Mingsen shook his head, with a hint of emotion in his expression.

"Actually, I think some people in this room have thought of the answer, but you haven't said it -- maybe because of shame?"

"Because what Chinese people care about the most is precisely what we claim to protect, but we have never really worked hard for it."

"It's people, and human rights."

After his words fell, the meeting room fell silent as he expected, but Mingsen had already prepared for this, and he did not dwell too much on this awkward atmosphere, but continued:

"No matter what, what they care most about is their own lives and rights. You may feel that they do not protect these rights well, and you have seen many cases of so-called human rights violations, but the problem is that they absolutely do not would allow those rights to be compromised by external forces."

"So, our strategy is simple: we want to exchange the rights of the Chinese people for their technology."

"What are we going to do?"

The people in the conference room were at a loss. They could understand the general logic, but they couldn't understand how Mingsen wanted to make this logic a reality.

"It's simple, we're going to 'take hostages'."

"Taking hostages? Where did the hostages come from??"

"Their overseas personnel include all Chinese living in our country."

Hearing Mingsen's words, everyone in the conference room turned pale with shock, even those high-level decision makers who had seen the world before, all showed some expressions of disbelief.

Only then did they discover that Minsen once belonged to the Hermes organization after all, and the madness in his bones hadn't diminished at all after leaving Hermes.

"Mingsen, stop joking. The consequence of doing this is war. You don't really think that at the level of national confrontation, they will make compromises because of the interests of a few people?"

"The moment you announce that you are taking these people as hostages—no, the moment you express such an intention, their intercontinental missiles will be aimed at your head!"

Mingsen nodded slightly, and then said:
"So we need to rely on the power of public opinion-do you remember the hostage incident in 1979? At that time, the ugly country was one of the most powerful countries on the planet, but why, they would take place for half a year after the hostage seizure incident After that, the armed rescue strategy was adopted?"

"The core of the problem is people."

"We can't do it from the government, we have to do it from the people, do you understand what I mean?"

"This is actually a game. Yes, the BCI transmission and compilation algorithm is very important to us and China, but its importance must be limited."

"When refusing to hand over the technology costs more than it's worth, they have to compromise."

"So, what we need to do is actually very simple, that is, let the people fight by themselves, and we will mediate from it, delaying the resolution of the problem as much as possible, and at the same time promoting the development of public opinion in China, forcing them to fight in haste make a decision under the circumstances.”

"Believe me, they will compromise, because there is a paradox."

"They neither want war, nor can they sit idly by their fellow man."

"This is their biggest weakness. As long as we grasp this weakness, we will have the leverage to negotiate with them."

Everyone in the conference room remained silent, and everyone was thinking about the feasibility of this matter.

The strategy Minson proposed was too crazy and too crude, but as he said, from the perspective of historical cases, such a strategy seems to be effective.

Whether it is iran in 1979, libya in 2020, or Ukraine in 2020, this strategy has played a huge role.

Of course, their final result is war, but in this operation, war may not necessarily happen.

Because human beings still have a common enemy.

So, this strategy seems to have some feasibility?
A few minutes later, a man suddenly said:

"I think we can try."

"We can start with soft and moderate measures, and if they are effective, we can gradually become tougher."

"It's no loss for us, is it?"

Hearing the man's words, Mingsen showed a little smile on his face, and he said:
"Of course, of course."

"Believe me, we not only have nothing to lose, but also gain more, additional benefits"

(End of this chapter)