Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 560 Federation VS Three Systems, Lantern Festival
"Ploughing the court and sweeping away the enemy's lair" is not only an idiom, but also a form of warfare.

It is completely different from extreme practices such as 'kill all, loot all, burn all' and 'extermination of Native Americans'.

The aim was to destroy the enemy's will, beliefs, habitats, arsenals, command posts, and productivity, thereby completely eliminating the military threat, while avoiding indiscriminate killing so as to preserve the basic population and social structure for postwar reconstruction.

In ancient times, there were countless examples of people being plundered and their homes destroyed.

In modern times, this tactic has become a tactic exclusive to the strong.

Between 1944 and 1945, North America used B-29 Superfortresses to systematically bomb Japan, destroying 64 major cities on the island, with results far exceeding those of the two Peace World bombs.

In 1991, North America launched 10 sorties in the Gulf War, dropping nearly 9 tons of bombs on Iraq, prompting Saddam Hussein to take the initiative to fight.

In 1999, North America bombed Yugoslavia for two months, leading to the direct disintegration of Yugoslavia, whose economic strength was comparable to that of Europe.

Just as the Han Dynasty annihilated the Xiongnu and forged the glorious Han Dynasty, North America, through these battles, also established its status as the dominant power on its home planet.

However, as the new century began, North America, which embraced neoliberalism, lost the Russian bear as an adversary and ceased to suppress the expansion of its internal capital groups. As a result, it was gradually hijacked, hollowed out, and reduced to a parasite of capital.

Nowadays, although it still possesses the ability to sweep away enemy strongholds, it can no longer employ this tactic.

Because the survival of capital depends heavily on the market.

The market is not only a place for the exchange of goods, services and resources, but also a financial mechanism based on credit.

Its core elements mainly include the trading entities - buyers and sellers, the trading objects - goods and services, and the trading methods - spot markets and virtual exchanges.

If the entire area is swept away, the target region will lose the above-mentioned core elements and will be unable to reflect its original market value for a long time to come.

Just like the Iraq War in 03.

North America has been carrying out precision strikes and decapitation operations in order to secure the US dollar market and crude oil resources.

If Iraq were to be thoroughly purged, factories within its borders would be destroyed, leaving the local population without means of production; Iraq's infrastructure would be destroyed, leaving the local population without means of production; and because capitalists would be unwilling to spend more money on reconstruction, refugees would not be able to be converted into cheap labor, ultimately resulting in capitalists earning very little profit.

Regarding the matter of transferring to Guatemala.

With the demise of the South Pacific owls, the production of opium poppies and pineapples in Afghanistan has decreased, and Latin America now dominates 95% of global commodity trade.

The drug trade is rampant in North America. If federal capital were to crack down on drug lords, not only would those who profit from the drug trade within the country rebel, but those who need drug would also rebel.

This would constitute market exclusion, tear off the fig leaf of capital, and expose the loopholes in propaganda about votes, democracy, and freedom.

Therefore, federal capital is unlikely to suppress it, and may even push for the legalization of drugs in order to gain greater market acceptance.

on the contrary.

Collectivism means that everything is for the collective.

Internally, the group demonstrates unprecedented inclusiveness towards all members. As long as you don't break the rules, you are the master, so everyone should have a sense of ownership.

Externally, the collective shows great tolerance towards all those who support it. However, if you reject the collective, slander the collective, or infringe upon its interests, the collective will eliminate you without regard for the consequences, thereby gaining more space for the collective to survive.

Regarding the matter of transferring to Guatemala.

White faces are harmful to the collective, eliminating owls is the collective's will, and destroying and taking over the owls' territory is the collective's need.

Therefore, the three groups do not care about external evaluations, nor do they care about the market value generated by white powder. They can openly and blatantly ignore international public opinion, raze the territory of the owl to the ground, and then swagger around to develop and cultivate it on the spot.

These are also the essential differences between capital and the collective in terms of worldview and values.

But for the Pentagon...

If the collective were to launch a sweeping attack in the Asia-Pacific region, or even West Asia and Africa, federal capital would simply ignore it.

Indeed, this was the case. Sanyuan Agriculture's anti-bandit campaigns in Southeast Asia and its development in West Africa were never reported by either federal or European capital.

Because of the World Food Agreement, each side had already divided up their spheres of influence.

However, Guatemala belongs to Latin America and is considered North America's backyard.

The three factions, under the pretext of the joint fleet's visit to the Gulf of Mexico and the establishment of a distant-sea outpost, secretly launched a Latin American strategy, which not only threatened federal capital but also crossed its bottom line.

This also made Federal Capital realize that Yu Sanyuan was still the same vengeful Yu Sanyuan.

When it was weak, it was blocked and beaten by federal capital.

If a nation is powerful, and yet it is still besieged and beaten by federal capital, wouldn't that be a waste of its power?
So the other party came and blocked the door.

This suggests that what appears to be a sweeping crackdown on drug lords is actually a sign that capital and collectives are about to clash, leading to a real conflict.

Perhaps the three supercomputer systems have already entered combat mode.
Perhaps Theta Starlink has already completed its new deployment in North America.
Perhaps nuclear-powered spaceplanes have already reached North American airspace...

In short, this was a sudden war in the Americas that, if federal capital had been willing to fight, would certainly have been.

Yes, the main battlefield is in the Americas, not in the Asia-Pacific region.

Given this situation, who in the Pentagon wouldn't be under immense pressure?

Inside the Pentagon meeting room.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the head of RAND Corporation, and numerous North American generals, after discussion and analysis, and verification by an AI war simulation system, arrived at the above conclusion, and were immediately filled with unprecedented anger and panic.

Especially in the eyes of federal capital, Yu Sanyuan is no different from David Engel.

David dared to use the Peace World to attack Yu Sanyuan in order to fulfill a divine decree.

For the sake of the team, Yu Sanyuan also dared to forcefully start Season 3.

Moreover, this is a conflict being fought in North America's backyard, and it won't affect the Asia-Pacific region at all.

Even if Yu Sanyuan loses the entire combined fleet, as long as they can take a big bite out of North America, it will still be an unprecedented victory for the collective.

Then Defense Secretary Robert Gates suddenly remembered a military chess simulation conducted by the Tripartite Think Tank some time ago.

What exactly did he arrive at?

"Was it this outcome that prompted today's action?"

The head of RAND Corporation shook his head in denial, saying, "The South Pacific tsunami occurred during the Spring Festival, and the military chess simulation took place ten days later. By then, the Combined Fleet had already left the South Pacific. Yu Sanyuan's conclusions were not in time to provide the Combined Fleet with troops and supplies... Unless he was certain of victory for the sailor fleet and had already prepared to shift the battlefield to Latin America."

"Prepared long ago?" Defense Secretary Robert Gates was slightly taken aback, then suddenly thought of Old Bush and Old Smith heading to the East, and Young Bush visiting the East.

He immediately thought of the old Walton brothers, who were hit by multiple missiles and died in a plane crash…

"No way?"

"Yu Sanyuan wouldn't be that crazy, would he?!"

The head of RAND Corporation also realized this, his expression changed, and he walked out of the conference room to contact old Morgan.

The RAND Corporation was originally controlled by the oil tycoon. After the oil tycoon's death, although Old Brooks and Old Smith planned to take advantage of the situation and seize the assets of the oil faction, the oil tycoon's death was a scheme orchestrated by the Morgan financial group. Old Morgan had already made all the arrangements.

Therefore, not only was the RAND Corporation snatched away by J.P. Morgan, but also the overseas bases controlled by Brooks and the various North American institutions infiltrated by Smith were also poached by J.P. Morgan.

After receiving a call from the head of the RAND Corporation and listening to the analysis, Morgan ordered without hesitation: "Yu Sanyuan dares not directly attack Old Bush and Old Smith, nor will he let them die in the plane crash, because that would allow the federal capital to complete a centralization of power, which would be detrimental to the future development of the three systems."

Our top priority right now is to defend our backyard and prevent the Joint Fleet's land forces from advancing from Latin America into Mexico, and especially to prevent the enemy from establishing outposts or bases in Mexico.

The head of RAND Corporation certainly understood this principle, but he didn't have the power to command troops. "Which troops do we need to allocate?"

“最精锐的海豹、游骑兵、绿贝雷、三角洲，外加第1骑兵师、第1步兵师、第4机械师、第101空中突击师、第82空降师，以及海部陆战队2个大队，南方边境6个州的民兵护卫队，蒂华纳集团的3个万人水手突击队。”

"This...the enemy has less than 3 troops, but we've mobilized 23?"

“We must make Yu Sanyuan back down, and especially prevent him from advancing into Mexico. Therefore, we must also announce that we have wiped out the Owls and are confident that we can eliminate the Owls in Mexico. In this way, the land legion of the Joint Fleet will no longer need to enter Mexico.”

The head of RAND Corporation nodded knowingly.

The joint fleet traveled tens of thousands of kilometers to conduct operations, with a resupply cycle lasting up to half a month.

If this matter were to escalate into a standoff, it would not only buy North America time to deal with this unexpected event, but also deplete the combined fleet's supplies, forcing the other side to back down.

...

North American time, early morning of February 12th.

The four most elite special operations battalions in North America, along with the five most elite divisions, two Marine Corps units, three 10,000-strong Marine Commando units, and militia escorts from six state capitals, marched south from all directions, heading straight for Mexico.

Mexican officials were eager to express their dissatisfaction with this scale of troop deployment.

But deep down, he knew very well that he should be tough when others wouldn't take action, and he should back down when others were sure to take action.

Therefore, they announced overnight that the 06 joint US-Mexico operation had officially begun!
Of course, upon hearing about the Guatemalan incident, the Mexican drug lords, fearing they would become Southeast Asian drug lords and be made into specimens by Yu Sanyuan by hanging them on streetlights, had already rushed into North America overnight and were no longer in Mexico.

As a result, the security situation in the southern states of North America became extremely chaotic overnight, with gunfights occurring almost every hour.

Especially in the most developed Texas, gang warfare, drug lord warfare, arms dealer warfare, organ dealer warfare, used car dealer warfare... Even the 'gun stores' belonging to the North American Firearms Association, which were once untouchable, were unprecedentedly snapped up by zero-dollar buyers.

...

the other side.

Eastern Time, February 12th, afternoon.

On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, Yu Yang, along with Lao Bu and Secretary Lao Shi, visited the Baotu Spring Lantern Festival.

It is understood that the lanterns at Baotu Spring are used and stored away each year, then slightly modified and brought out for use next year, and then sent to another street fair the year after that.

However, with the help of Yu Da-dang this year, Dongshan Prefecture has accumulated at least 3000 billion US dollars in investment. In addition, investors such as Bush, Shi, and the business groups from Japan that purchased three series of US Treasury bonds have not yet left, and groups from South Korea and the oil country have also visited.
Therefore, all the lanterns at Baotu Spring this year were either custom-made in a rush or rented at high prices from the factory's publicity department.

Not only are the designs novel, but they also highlight the characteristics of Shili Camp, the collective, and the three systems...

Just like the main entrance.

Looking up, you see a model of the Dongyue ship, a collective gift for the National Day Golden Week.

To make it easier for tourists to view the deck, the height was lowered, causing it to tilt slightly, and stormy waves were painted on the ground.

At the same time, a model of a nuclear-powered space shuttle, obscuring the sky, was erected high in the air.

These two lanterns, set against the backdrop of the three-electro-tube quantization project, are paired with moving remote-controlled missile models, remote-controlled helicopter models, and remote-controlled radar models.
Whether it's tourists who came specifically to attend the lantern festival or vehicles passing by on the road, everyone exclaimed in amazement.

"Nubi!"

Passing through these two lanterns, inside the main gate is a model of a drone aircraft carrier.

In addition to the lighting project, they also used civilian drones to simulate the take-off and landing process.

Hundreds of shipping containers were unfolded at the same time, revealing layers of stacked shelves inside.

Then, civilian drones equipped with lighting effects took off almost simultaneously.

First, they fly around like a swarm of locusts, then orderly enter the racks, then the containers close, and finally, with the help of mechanical guide rails, they retract into the deck.

"My God, this is just a model. If it were real, thousands of shipping containers would be deployed simultaneously..."

"It's so spectacular! I'm definitely going to apply for the third-line seaman position this year!"

"Save your breath, kid. The ratio of applicants to seafarers in the third division has reached 5:1."

"I really envy the first batch of third-line seamen; they practically got the spots for free!"

"I heard that the highest-ranking officer there has been promoted to major in the midst of several conflicts."

"Major? A major has to be at least 30 years old. They don't have enough years of service, do they?"

"Those fat, dark-skinned men guarding the border, they don't even have enough years of military service, but they still become generals, don't they?"

"To put it bluntly, it's all about military merit!"

"I finally understand why young soldiers crave military merit; it turns out it can shorten their military service."

"It's not about shortening military service, but about military merits leading to promotions in rank and position. Some can be promoted one rank, and some can even be promoted several ranks in a row."

"I also want to achieve great things!"

"Have you heard? The Combined Fleet went to the Gulf of Mexico to carry out the anti-suppression operation, bringing 3 guards with it."

"Those are the Southern Yue Imperial Guards; they have nothing to do with us."

"Ok."

Beyond the drone carrier model, behind it is a concrete aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft currently being developed independently by the East.

A banner was unfurled below: We will definitely have our own aircraft carrier!
Passing through the concrete aircraft carrier, ahead are various types of three-line fighter jets.

This includes the first J-10 copied from the three series and the high-performance J-10.

J11, High-performance J11

J11B, J11B pro, J11B pro max.

Y8, High-performance Y8

Y8 Pro, Y8 Pro Max, Y8 Civil Transport Aircraft

Y-8 firefighting aircraft, Y-8 agricultural aircraft, Y-8 refrigerated transport aircraft

High-performance Black Hawk helicopter, high-performance Apache helicopter

High-performance agricultural support aircraft, high-performance V280 tiltrotor aircraft

J-14 heavy multi-role fighter jet,

Asuka I reconnaissance aircraft, Asuka II early warning aircraft, Asuka III unmanned reconnaissance aircraft…

Further back.

The three systems feature a unique bullet hell anti-missile system.

Submarine-launched Kunpeng amphibious missile

Javelin missile,

Javelin multi-purpose missile

Three-tier land cruiser - missile cluster...

Meanwhile, there are also many technological creations of the three systems on the side.

Theta Starlink, Theta Satellite,

Sanyuan Space Station, Dongyue Daomen-Tiangong, Futu Temple-Xiaoxitian

The third-generation second-generation nuclear power plant - Liss Town model (pressurized water reactor)

Model of a third-generation nuclear power plant in Fengdu Nuclear Energy Industrial Park (CNC pressurized water reactor).

Third-generation fourth-generation nuclear power plant - Liaoshi New Energy (high-temperature gas-cooled reactor).

Three-system hydropower station - Yarlung Tsangpo River power generation group in Tibet (16 dams)

The Three-System Seawater Desalination Project - Yellow River Auxiliary Channel Irrigation Project (Yellow River Estuary)

Three-line seed cultivation demonstration model

Three-line livestock breeding demonstration model

Tri-line gene optimization demonstration model

Sanyuan High-Tech has many new projects, such as flying motorcycles, drilling vehicles, magnetic levitation cars, a large-scale lunar base development demonstration model, and a concept model of a faster-than-light propulsion system - warp drive...

"I've really learned something new today, even though it was a small fry!"

"Is all of this true? Why do I have this feeling that if we had these things, we could completely crush North America?"

"Having it doesn't mean it can be put into use immediately. We need time now. Once it accumulates to a certain level, North America will be nothing in the end."

"Makes sense!"

Hearing the cheers around him, Yu Yang looked at Lao Bu and Lao Shi and smiled slightly.

The latter had received news that the joint fleet had landed in Guatemala and was advancing towards Mexico in a sweeping, decisive manner.

The two of them made time to admire the lanterns together today, partly for the purpose of their negotiations.

Old Bu leaned closer and whispered, "Yu, you already have about 10% market share in Europe. We can give you 5%, and if we add the concessions from the EU, you can get at least 20%."

“I want 50%, and 5 out of 10 European goods must come from the three-line system, plus compensation for 5 ports.”

"I'm sorry, the EU is not part of the Federation. Your demand is too high, and we simply cannot meet it."

“Then I want 50% of the North American market, and 5 out of 10 North American products must come from the three-line system, plus 5 additional ports as compensation.”

Are you still half asleep?

"Do you really have to wait until I conquer Texas before you'll compromise?"

"You're absolutely insane!"

(End of this chapter)