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Of course, this model also carries certain risks. It can easily lead to vicious competition among local governments, or even cross-regional transfer of benefits, resulting in local governments undermining the central government.

At this point, the central government needs to step in, act as the arbiter at crucial moments, and adjust the distribution of benefits. In this way, the biggest economic troublemaker in the locality can be dealt with.

This is only part of Xinhua's new economic policy. In the future development process, Xinhua will do its best to avoid the emergence of polarization. To put it bluntly, we must never allow the income of a high-level person to be equivalent to the enormous wealth that a person at the bottom could not even imagine for dozens or hundreds of generations.

Historical experience has shown that once an individual's or family's wealth expands to a certain extent, they will think about hereditary privileges and form interest groups within the new order, creating another implicit model of family rule.

The simplest way to avoid this is to let capitalists fight each other within the market economy, so that they can never unite. Ideally, in the end of each game, both sides should be severely damaged, and then the central government should step in to handle the situation, taking over and handing over the lion's share of the profits from both sides.

The above is just an ideal model. In actual operation, all sorts of unexpected events will definitely occur, but it is difficult but we still have to do it, otherwise others will take advantage of your loopholes and then turn around and seize your power.

In any case, this is how Xinhua's internal economic adjustments are currently being made. Now let's return to the issue of humanitarian aid, which is of great concern to the whole world.

Because all three leaders of the socialist bloc support humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, protests from other countries are futile.

Moreover, aside from oddballs like the US and Israel, most other countries with sound minds know that they shouldn't protest or should protest such things, but rather should support them wholeheartedly, otherwise they could easily ruin their reputation.

Large countries at least have the capital to act recklessly, but what right do small countries have? Do you really think you can take on the whole world single-handedly?

The proposal was thus passed smoothly. The United Nations will deploy peacekeeping forces to assist Palestinians and Israelis in the area.

The United Nations will treat all people equally when it comes to providing assistance to ordinary citizens.

However, it's important to state the unpleasant truth upfront: if hostile or exclusionary behavior occurs in the area, UN peacekeeping forces have the right to retaliate in self-defense.

This was mainly addressed to Israel. Don't think we don't know what you've been up to in private. We know everything. If you dare to trip us up at a crucial moment, be careful, the three leaders will join forces to deal with you.

The various levels of alarms are enough to fuel his unrealistic ambitions at the highest levels of the Israeli government, but what the lower and middle levels of the radical faction in Israel will do is another matter entirely.

But it's okay. As already mentioned, if UN peacekeeping forces are attacked, they have the right to retaliate in self-defense. The UN has the right to determine what constitutes a self-defense retaliation. In that case, it might not be a self-defense retaliation anymore, but could very well turn into a war on terror.

As it turns out, without the constraints of the United States, the UN's humane decision-making process proceeded very smoothly, with everyone readily raising their hands in support, since the main financial contributors were not them. However, this also meant that international decision-making power had completely become a toy in the hands of the new Big Three. Xinhua and the People's Revolutionary Party were relatively easy to deal with, but the Soviet Union, a country with a strong patriarchal system, might engage in many abstract maneuvers in the future.

This is also one of the issues that must be worried about. Therefore, Qinshan's main task in the next stage is to promote the national integration process of the Twelfth World and turn the entire socialist camp into a complete superpower.

The project was full of imagination; at least in the eyes of the locals at that time, it was hard to imagine the scene of the three kingdoms being united.

However, Qin Shan didn't care. This was a worthwhile attempt, and whether it succeeded or failed, it would be of great reference value.

Even if it takes a hundred or two hundred years to wait, that's fine. The only uncertainty is whether the enemy will give us that much time. If they don't, then we'll have to regretfully accelerate the process. In the face of the life and death of all human civilization, the attitude and life or death of individual countries are not important.

"Admiral, the latest Abyss Gate signal indicates the situation on the other side is a bit complicated."

"complex?"

Qin Shan took the tablet from Lexington, and after reading a few pages, he understood what was going on.

A war is raging in the opposite world, but the warring parties are carbon-based life forms and silicon-based life forms. Remember that special silicon-based assault rifle that Qin Shan obtained before?

Yes, according to the composition analysis, this thing was made by the silicon-based civilization of this world.

Number 13, an Earth world that looks somewhat like a science fiction story, set in 2008.

Chapter 49: The Beauty of Transformers - The Counterattack of the European Traitors

Comrades, do you remember what happened in 2008?

That year marked a turning point for the world, the prelude to an era of transition, and the rise of a mysterious Eastern power, which gradually developed into an industrial Cthulhu that the United States was powerless to counter.

However, on Earth in the parallel universe number 13, a small change occurred in 2008.

Five years earlier, in 2003, the arrival of some extraterrestrial visitors quickly split humanity into two camps: the Human Liberation Alliance led by Xinhua and the Earth Federation led by the United States.

All of this originates from a silicon-based life form named Cybertron.

Please note that this is a transliteration that is accurate, expressive, and elegant. According to the original meaning, their planet is called Venus, which means a planet made of metal. After the supernatural and silicon-based elements combined, the first intelligent silicon-based life forms appeared on Cybertron. This was not the creation of the Primordial Lord, but the natural evolution of this world.

Cybertron is divided into several factions, but the two main factions are the Autobots and the Decepticons. However, there is no such thing as Autobots or Decepticons because silicon-based life forms are easier to modify, more compatible, and do not have an adverse reaction to metals. Therefore, Cybertronians are capable of flight.

The Autobots advocate democracy, while the Demagogues advocate dictatorship. The former believe in the power of the people, while the latter believe that only elite rule can ensure the growth of their civilization.

However, this is merely a difference in ideology; the fundamental reason for the hostility between the two sides is always the struggle for survival and development.

After the three Cybertronian World Wars, the Autobots were no match for the Decepticons and chose to strategically relocate from Cybertron. With so many planets in the universe and silicon-based life forms so adaptable, there was no need to fight to the death on their home planet.

So the story becomes that the Autobot guerrilla forces are being hunted down by the Decepticon army.

During the pursuit and interception, the Autobots parachuted onto Earth.

Originally, they planned to collect only some necessary resources in Antarctica and leave immediately, but their leader Optimus Prime objected because they had already been here, and the Decepticons would soon be coming. Given the attitude of those moderate homecoming groups towards weaker civilizations, they would probably turn this place into a resource-exploiting hell in no time.

"We brought the Decepticons here, so it's our responsibility to protect the locals and equip them with the ability to fight the Decepticons!"

Subsequently, the Autobots took the initiative to contact various countries on Earth, hoping to cooperate with humans to jointly establish a united organization to resist the Decepticon invasion. Then, the Western countries, led by the United States, mistakenly believed that these aliens were just a group of down-and-outs being hunted down, and decided to rob the Autobots and take their advanced technology for themselves.

In the minds of Western countries, how could a powerful interstellar civilization possibly cooperate with a weak Earth? It must be a lie. They must be incapable of fighting back right now, and their supplies are almost exhausted, so they're pretending to beg Earth. Anyway, if the US were in their position, they would definitely do the same. Don't forget how their Thanksgiving came about.

So these aliens are already crippled, just waiting to be opened by us. Now what the United States needs to do is strike first, call on its allies, and the glory and power of mankind for the next few hundred years will belong exclusively to the United States!

But reality isn't a Hollywood blockbuster. The Autobots wouldn't prove their friendliness towards humanity through self-harm, nor would they be naive and innocent people who only know how to do good deeds. In reality, Optimus Prime is a leader who knows how to assess situations, understands the true goodness and beauty of humanity, and deeply understands the principle that peace is achieved through struggle.

When the US-led NATO launched a surprise attack on the Autobots, the Autobots demonstrated their overwhelming power, showing NATO what a "dimensional reduction attack" truly meant.

In ten minutes, NATO's industrial systems were completely destroyed, their nuclear weapons were wiped out, and 90% of their frontline troops were captured. The only loss for the Autobots was ammunition. The proportion of prisoners shows how lenient they were.

If the United States had such weapons, there would only be one industrialized nation on Earth right now.

The Bourgeoisie were very disappointed with the performance of NATO countries, but not with humanity, because in the process, the Third World countries, represented by Xinhua, welcomed the Bourgeoisie's arrival and firmly refused when NATO demanded the formation of a coalition.

Sun Wanbang, President of the Xinhua News Agency, stated clearly on the 13th: "It is very important that the US government clearly recognize who our enemies are and who our friends are!"

Unfortunately, NATO, led by the United States, did not listen. Now, they have been industrially crippled and can be bullied by any industrialized country. The Autobots have also demonstrated their strength through this round of attacks and established a cooperative relationship with Xinhua.

The Autobots were well aware that the appearance of their powerful civilization on a weak homeworld would inevitably cause panic and chaos. Their ability to remain calm and adopt a relatively friendly and neutral stance under such circumstances was enough to prove that the other side was a civilization with a solid foundation. After learning about Xinhua through the internet, they became very interested in this rudimentary civilization with a history of five thousand years, and the two sides quickly established formal diplomatic relations.

However, Xinhua also understands that accepting the Autobots' help means facing the Decepticons. Therefore, the next five years will be a period of rapid development, with all efforts made to develop advanced technology. No matter what level it can achieve, the goal is to at least give humanity the technological capability to travel to other star systems before the Decepticons reach the solar system.

If possible, the whole Earth could run together.

Optimus Prime greatly admired this grand plan and reached a tacit understanding with Chairman Sun. They decided to equip Earth with engines to get it moving, and then conduct various technological researches while moving, until humanity mastered faster-than-light travel in subspace. Perhaps on that day, the Autobot Cybertronians would merge with humans on Earth to form a new civilization and move towards a brighter future.

These are all just ideas; what we need to do now is get through this difficult time together.

But while some are happy, others are not. The most unhappy are the vast Western world. They cannot accept that they have become a global cesspool overnight, especially after the loss of industrial capacity in Europe and America. Countries that were once bullied by them began to retaliate fiercely. Japan even rearmed itself and occupied Hawaii. If it weren't for the combined efforts of the Xinhua and the Autobots, they could have carried out a massacre in Washington after they invaded the American mainland (they had already decimated Hawaii, leaving only 320 survivors. Yes, Hawaii, with a population of over one million, was reduced to only 320 people).

South Korea's protection was relatively more subtle. It only involved making the US president kneel for 999 hours under the scorching sun under a half-grown Bagua flag to apologize for the humiliation suffered by the South Korean people by the US military stationed in South Korea during the past (for every hour less, the US would pay an additional ton of gold in reparations). This resulted in the current US president literally kneeling to death under the South Korean flag, and then turning the US vice president into a fan of his own president. He even livestreamed himself having sex with the US vice president on YouTube.

North African countries poured into Europe and then began to engage in heated exchanges with their former colonial powers, with at least 100,000 to 300,000 people dying every day from the chaos for various reasons.

Logically, this situation should have been a great opportunity for Russia to make its mark. However, unfortunately, because Russia also joined the attack on the Autobots in this parallel world, and Yeltsin was in power, Russia's industry and nuclear weapons were completely wiped out. Yeltsin was subsequently purged by Putin, who staged a coup, and his entire family was executed.

Without industry, Russia was unable to eliminate domestic separatist forces, and Russia effectively split into eight countries. The European part, which is also the richest part of Russia, split into six countries. After Putin came to power, the capital of Russia became Irkutsk, west of Lake Baikal.

Without Kyiv and Moscow, is Russia still Russia?

Whatever, anyway, this world has the Russian Republic, the Russian Federation, the Russian Confederation, the Russian People's United Front, the Russian Far East Union, the Russian Siberian Commonwealth, the United Nations of Russia and Belarus, and the Southern Republic of Russia, a total of eight countries. After Rome, there are Romes everywhere. Since the Ottomans were all Romes, why can't so many Russias be Russias? It's like the family has grown stronger.

Anyway, due to the various messes of the colonial era, these countries were severely punished. In this chaos, white people in the Western world began to hate the Autobots, believing that the Autobots Cybertronians had destroyed their lives and civilization, and that their bright future had been ruined by those monsters.

Damn it, those silicon-based monsters! When we went to kill you, you dared to fight back!

This is the prevailing ideology among white people in Europe and America.

Because they were destroyed so quickly, there wasn't enough time for their mindset to shift.

It took 75 years for the new China in the domestic world to gradually rise. During this period, the internal contradictions of the Western world fully fermented, and those who were at their most glorious era gradually grew old. The new generation opened their eyes to a turbulent world, so they had no feeling for so-called pride and glory, but they were the ones who would succeed the times.

This kind of population replacement is a gentle, indirect form of elimination, and it also indirectly eliminates many of the problems caused by sudden destruction.

However, World Thirteen did not go through this process. The world of 2003 was still a world that Western countries felt good about themselves. They were still enjoying prosperity and glory when suddenly aliens arrived and destroyed everything they had.

Unwilling to accept the loss of everything, the elites of Western countries incited the lower classes to launch a large-scale terrorist attack. However, their goal was not to rebuild their countries, but to take the opportunity to collect enough resources to build something. This is because there are Decepticon spies among the Autobot Cybertronians who are preparing to send out the Autobot coordinates. In return for helping them accomplish this great task, Western countries will once again become the elite on Earth after the Decepticons arrive.

The story begins here.

Section 50: The Big Picture of World Thirteen

In many Deus Ex: Mechanism novels, the protagonist, carrying a Red Alert base vehicle, wreaks havoc in various worlds, using powerful technology to carry out dimensional warfare. This certainly exists in reality; as long as your technology is advanced enough, building a Red Alert base vehicle is not a difficult task.

Anyway, it's not a difficult technology for the current People's Revolutionary Alliance. It's already very common, and it can even fly.

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Although the Autobots were being hunted down by the Decepticons, they brought their full set of skills to the lane. However, their numbers were small, totaling no more than a million. Compared to the hundreds of billions of people controlled by the Decepticons, this number was insignificant. Once the Decepticons located the Autobots, they could easily push them down with a single wave of minions.

As silicon-based life forms, the Cybertronians are more adept at mechanical technology, so they have a greater number of artificial intelligence and unmanned combat units. As long as the Autobots have a relatively stable base, they can mass-produce troops in no time.

This is why the Decepticons are relentlessly pursuing the Autobots. They are all Cybertronians and are well aware that giving the other side a chance to develop is very dangerous. Not to mention the universe, the Milky Way is also quite large. If the Autobots really want to hide, the difficulty of being hunted down by the other side is extremely high. Therefore, the Decepticons must plant spies within the Autobots and continuously cultivate spies, carefully looking for an opportunity to annihilate the Autobots. They cannot let the other side escape, otherwise, there will be endless troubles.

This also shows that Cybertronian civilization is not a true interstellar civilization. Their direct management capabilities are not even able to cover the entire Milky Way. Although Qin Shan has never seen a real interstellar civilization, as an important stage in the development of civilization, if it cannot achieve complete and precise management within a single galaxy in a single universe when it reaches this stage, then this civilization can at most be considered a fake disguised as an interstellar civilization.

Nevertheless, the Cybertronians' activity spanned over a hundred star systems, covering a range of 10,000 light-years, roughly equivalent to 1/190th of the diameter of the Milky Way.

Fun fact: The Milky Way has a diameter of approximately 190 million light-years.

Beyond this distance, Cybertronians have very weak ties with their home planet. Therefore, it can be concluded that Cybertronians have established themselves throughout the galaxy, but their connection with their homeland will be lost after a few generations.

For the new generation, this is their hometown. As for their hometown, the second generation of Northeasterners who ventured to Northeast China back then have already begun to miss Shandong. In this situation, what kind of feelings can you expect a Cybertronian to have about their hometown tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of light-years away? To be honest, even Tianjin people have a more sincere feeling about Jianbing Guozi (a type of savory crepe).

This weak connection is the root cause of the fragmentation of civilizations after they spread out. Unless the Cybertronians can make it take no more than a month to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other, as long as it takes longer, even just one more day, the connection between that region and the homeland will be weak. A month is the time it takes for an interstellar civilization to build a complete planetary orbital defense system, and it is also the time it takes for the home fleet to run into the enemy's ironclad defenses after it sets off.

The above information was obtained through analysis of the Reaper civilization. After all, the Reapers couldn't possibly harvest everything into cosmic dust; they would always leave something behind. These left-behind items are very valuable, especially for interstellar newbies like the Human Revolutionary Alliance.

After gathering sufficient information about the Cybertronian civilization in World Thirteen, the General Staff of the Human Revolutionary Alliance determined that the Alliance would not gain any advantage in a direct confrontation at this stage. However, if the Alliance wanted to retreat, the enemy would be unable to do anything to them.

However, Qin Shan was even more aware that he possessed an even more unreasonable cheat: the system's cross-world communication capabilities would not be weakened by world barriers. This ultra-wide interconnected system with zero latency allowed players to truly participate in battles far from the battlefield. The mechanical fearlessness and the flexibility of the human brain were perfectly combined. In addition, he could harass the enemy indefinitely, but the enemy had no way to deal with him. In short, even if the Human Revolutionary Alliance could not eliminate the threat of the Cybertronian Decepticons, it could still make them suffer greatly.

Furthermore, in this process, the People's Revolutionary Alliance can continuously collect and analyze various technological creations of the enemy. In addition, in terms of supernatural powers, the People's Revolutionary Alliance has gone further and its system is more complete. As time goes by, the advantages of the People's Revolutionary Alliance will become more and more obvious.

"In short, this war can start as we see fit and can be stopped at any time as we see fit. It's a wonderful strategic advantage that allows us to bully the enemy."

After clarifying the relative strengths of both sides, Qin Shan did not rush to take action. Before making contact with the local official forces, he could travel around to see what the situation was like.

Firstly, on Xinhua's home turf, after five years of comprehensive cooperation with the Cybertronian faction, Xinhua's technological level has made significant progress. Due to the betrayal of a traitor within the Cybertronian faction, Earth's coordinates have now been exposed. Therefore, Xinhua is very clear about the challenges that human civilization will face next, and is thus uniting all forces that can be united.

However, due to the urgency of the situation, Xinhua's methods could not be as gentle as in peacetime. After all, this was a matter of life and death for all human civilization, and no one could stand aside. Therefore, at the World Solidarity Conference, Xinhua stated directly: "We must integrate all resources to move forward. We hope that all countries will make their own sacrifices and take responsibility for the survival of human civilization. Xinhua is no exception. If anyone chooses to stand against all of humanity at this time, then they are traitors to humanity. Traitors are dealt with only by iron fists and bullets!"

The Autobots estimate that the Decepticons' vanguard could reach Earth within ten years. If human civilization can withstand this vanguard attack, then humanity will gain ten to twenty years, or at most fifty years, no more. Before that time comes, human civilization must acquire the ability to escape from the Decepticons.

The only option is to escape; defeating them is impossible. What the Autobots want most is to defeat the Decepticons and liberate their comrades enslaved by them, but they can't. The objective reality is there, and everyone has to respect it, otherwise it will mercilessly kill all those who don't respect it.

At this point, Xinhua was the only country in the world that could be called a superpower. Xinhua was frantically absorbing and digesting the various technologies provided by the Autobots and Cybertronians, and then promoting them through national power. In this process, Xinhua carried out a brutal internal revolutionary struggle because it was going to promote a super-planned economy. If this was successful, there would be no room for any corrupt officials to survive, and the so-called family inheritance would become a joke. Society would be more fair and just, and the problem of wealth polarization in society would disappear. There would still be a gap between the rich and the poor, but it would not be so extreme as to affect the balance of society.

In short, it meant that all means of production would be publicly owned, and all economic transactions would be subject to supervision. You can imagine who would oppose this, and how fanatical they would become.

Chairman Sun Wanbang had already given these people a chance. As long as they honestly confessed, the past problems would be forgiven. In the face of greater contradictions, the small contradictions of the past could be treated as historical mistakes and mitigated. As long as we unite and work together towards the future, that will be enough.

But these people still refused.

For them, it's unfair that others can surpass the glory passed down from their ancestors after ten years of hard study!

Those who benefit from the status quo are conservatives. They are determined to keep the world in the state they are most familiar with and most comfortable with, and they believe that this kind of life should naturally continue forever.

Ultimately, with the help of the Autobot Cybertronians, and at the cost of families and interest groups who had shared a third of the nation's blood since its founding, the internal purge ended silently, and the super-planned economy system was successfully implemented.

Initially limited to Xinhua's home country, it gradually began to cover other countries, and these countries and regions covered by the super-planned economy basically became Xinhua's "since ancient times".

Ironically, Xinhua now strictly adheres to the eight-hour workday. However, in preparation for the future, some key positions are staffed with rotating shifts, ensuring that everyone gets two days off per week. Some people rest on Saturday and Sunday, some on Sunday and Monday, and others on Monday and Tuesday. This staggered shift system guarantees everyone's normal rest and greatly stimulates social vitality, allowing other industries to earn money while ordinary people are resting. Together, we have created a positive internal environment, resulting in everyone making money and eliminating the problem of a poor economic environment.

Sure enough, after cleaning up the useless slag, the whole world became much more harmonious.

Another important reason is that after Xinhua's super-planned economy began to operate, it became impossible for wealthy people to transfer their assets. In addition, Xinhua is now the only superpower, with the help of the Autobots and Cybertronians. Capital also knows where to make money. High taxes are true, but they are safe, unless you can build a system that can counter it.

However, the enemy's sabotage was also underway. But facing Xinhua's people's war, it was impossible for them to do anything without everyone's eyes. Moreover, in this special period, any spies who were caught were considered traitors to humanity. After interrogation, they would all be killed. If they didn't confess after being caught red-handed, then sorry. In this special period, we can also use some of the wisdom of our ancestors. In terms of torture, we have plenty of methods to break their spirit.

Overall, the situation within Xinhua in World Thirteen is very stable, with no sign of impending doom. Everyone believes that the government has the determination and power to save human civilization, and everyone is very positive and optimistic. Even those countries that have been incorporated into Xinhua's super-planned economy system have begun discussing how to join Xinhua.

But the outside world is not so peaceful.

Section 51: Stories of Japan, South Korea, and the United States

Fun fact: In the parallel universe of No. 13, the total population of mainland Japan is less than five million.

Wait, where did they go? Did they go to fight in World War III?

No, it wasn't that. Rather, after the complete decline of the white world in Europe and America, Japan and South Korea, who had long been fed up with the monster houses in East Asia, began to immigrate to North America like crazy. At this time, they were surprised to find that they were actually incredibly strong.

The weak white devils were no match for them. They easily carved out more than two million square kilometers of land in the United States, which is larger than their own mainland. Moreover, there are no earthquakes or tsunamis. Most importantly, the land is fertile. The geographical advantages that the United States had back then, we have now too!

Although these regions still had a large number of resistance guerrillas even after the Three Alls policy, Japan and South Korea didn't care at all. Even North Korea got involved, with South Korea trying to show its loyalty to its "father"!

Seoul reverted to its original name, Hanseong, and then relocated more than two-thirds of its native population to the Americas to join the local white population.