vrcanaries Chapter 326 Approval Process
Chapter 326 Approval Process
Radiaz cleared his throat as he finished speaking.
"But you and I should both know that the ability to manufacture warships for the Star Ring Group is itself a potential threat. These scrap metals they've put out in the open are just the tip of the iceberg. As long as they don't take back the warship manufacturing rights from the Star Ring Group, I'm afraid..."
Rediaz said all he wanted to say, but those present were all intelligent and naturally understood the other meaning he wanted to convey.
The key point is not how many they built, but whether they were even capable of building them.
Because of Earth Alliance's detection capabilities, no matter how deeply they try to probe Star Ring Group's warships, they can only ever detect what's on the surface. Perhaps Star Ring Group already has thousands of warships by now.
"Since we can't guess the exact number, we should make a saturation estimate as much as possible."
Ding Yi moistened the corner of his mouth with his index finger and flipped through the paper document design in front of him again and again.
"If they expand their army, we will expand our army too. I don't believe they can outrun us in the open."
"That's absolutely not possible."
Luo Congmin shook his head.
"Now, due to the construction of the Ringworld, the taxes borne by ordinary people have reached 12% of their total income, and the whole society is already in a slump. If the tax burden is further increased, it will probably be even more detrimental to us."
After years of development, the Earth Alliance's previously disorganized fleet structure has been reorganized into just three fleets.
【Galaxy】: The regular army of the Earth Alliance, mainly composed of expeditionary fleets and some newly recruited ships. It is large in scale and has the most complete range of ship types among all fleets.
【Sun and Moon】: This fleet can be considered Luo Congmin's private army. Ninety percent of its members are clones left behind by Liu Chang. Countless historical lessons have taught Luo Congmin one fact: as long as military power is not in his own hands, many positions will eventually become nominal.
Of course, the lessons learned here do not include Lin Xuan overthrowing the PDC.
【Starry Sky】: A heavy firepower force created by the Earth Alliance in its later stages. It is a creation that incorporates almost all of the Earth Alliance's cutting-edge technologies and has extremely astonishing destructive power. The chief designer of the fleet was personally appointed by the great engineer Wang Miao.
The initial design of the Star Fleet was intended to create a guard fleet for the future RimWorld, serving as an escort for the RimWorld.
After all, it's a colossal project fueled by an entire star. Without heavy firepower to support it, its limited mobility would make it impossible to escape danger.
Wang Miao shared the same idea, and the fleet he designed was also very aggressive, belonging to the type that only attacked and did not defend.
After all, in his view, simply defending is never a long-term solution.
If I kill all the enemies, won't that protect the RimWorld?
Each of the three fleets has its own strengths, but they all have one thing in common: they are extremely expensive.
The construction was expensive, and the finished product was even more expensive. The others, not being in charge, didn't know the cost of living. Luo Congmin was so worried that his hair was turning white.
She was unwilling to spend more money to expand the army.
After a long silence, Luo Ji suddenly spoke.
"If we could find a way to have a fight, that would be great."
The room fell silent the moment he said that.
Everyone was stunned by Luo Ji's words. After a long while, they almost simultaneously came up with a solution!
"Military exercise!"
"boom!"
Luo Congmin excitedly slammed her hand on the table, and a plan quickly took shape in her mind.
“That’s right, Dr. Luo Ji, you are a genius. We can create a fake military exercise to make the other side slip up. That way, we will have a reason to clear out our inventory.”
Upon hearing this, Luo Ji couldn't help but roll his eyes.
“In this room, you call me Dr. Luo Ji, and I won’t argue with that. But once we’re out of this room, what do you think you should call me?”
Luo Congmin pondered for a moment.
"Once you leave this room, you should call me Your Excellency the President."
The military exercise between the Earth Alliance and the Star Ring Group was finally scheduled for 24 days later, which happened to be New Year's Day. Ai AA didn't think much of it and agreed immediately.
This immediately attracted the attention of countless media reporters.
Of course, their focus is not on the local alliance, but on the AIAA group alliance.
Since the civilianization of the manufacturing rights for military ships by the Earth Alliance, many people have been speculating about the gap between private enterprises and the Earth Alliance's military industry. After all, in most people's minds, the overall technological strength of the Star Ring Group is far superior to that of the Earth Alliance.
That's right, StarRing Group's technology is indeed superior to EarthLink's.
This is mainly due to two reasons: first, Dilian's economy is developing in all aspects, unlike Xinghuan Group which only develops one or a few projects; second, it is due to the outflow of talent.
Luo Congmin reformed education countless times, but none of the talents she cultivated chose to work in the local area.
The operating model of the Earth Alliance is actually to harvest the interests of the middle class and the elite, and then give these interests to ordinary people, creating the impression that the Earth Alliance cares about ordinary people and that it is a free and democratic society.
However, this would inevitably offend the interests of the middle-class elite, and AA was able to establish a group alliance precisely because of the support of the middle-class elite.
To put it simply, the struggle within the Earth Alliance has shifted from initial partisan struggle to class struggle.
The most absurd thing is that normal school education will not produce many elites. After all, the essence of education has always been to serve the ruling class. You just need to graduate and be a slave. If you really know how to make money and accumulate initial assets, that would be terrible.
Wouldn't that mean an ordinary person could overcome three generations of hard work by studying for ten years?
How can this be allowed?
However, the Earth Alliance has been at war for the past 20 years, both external and internal. Therefore, Luo Congmin's initial policy was to accelerate the cultivation of talent in schools and speed up the development of high technology.
As a result, the school actually cultivated a large number of elites for her, which was completely handing AiAA a free kill.
AiAA doesn't even have to do anything; every year, a large number of talented people flock to Xinghuan Group, and then, like a snowball, this capital behemoth grows bigger and bigger.
On the other hand, the research talent pool is facing a shortage of young talent, and even the administrative staff are getting too old.
During this period, Luo Congmin made repeated concessions on policy because the organized demonstrations by university students were too intense, and the pressure from public opinion from all sides was overwhelming for the top management of the local government.
Whether the policies implemented by the Earth Federation leadership are wrong or not is not important; what is important is that these students are not actually supporting or opposing these policies.
It's just that they are now tied to the middle-class elite, and as members of the middle-class elite, they will never betray the interests of their class. Therefore, Luo Congmin must implement an iron-fisted crackdown on this matter.
If their reputation is ruined, so be it. But if they actually succeed, it's hard to say whether the local alliance will belong to the Luo or Ai family in the future.
When you see those grassroots people marching and demonstrating, when has the local government ever cared about them?
Luo Congmin was also very shrewd. She knew that these elite students were standing on the moral high ground of righteousness, and she could not convict them, as that would only incite public outrage.
Therefore, she charged these students with violating the law on demonstrations and assemblies.
In other words, any demonstration or march needs to be approved by the local government. Only after the approval is granted and the required documents are stamped can the demonstration or march begin.
When the result came out, everyone was completely stunned.
Dude, are you kidding me?
Do I need your permission before I start this protest?
But that's how the local authorities operate. If you don't go through the approval process, and you gather illegally, they have a reason to arrest you.
However, I am not against the content of your march, but you did not follow the approval process and conduct your march in a civilized and courteous manner.