"Joint venture with the Principality for the construction of a chemical plant...... Is it really good to do that?"

Thor turned around, his eyes full of incredulity, Freya, who had always been a diehard Archon, questioned the Archon's decision, which was a very rare thing.

Ignoring Thor's astonishment, Freya continued:

"Today's agriculture under the management of the consortium is completely ecological agriculture, and the demand for fertilizers and pesticides is not as great as in the past, even if it is to reduce environmental protection costs and labor costs, as well as to switch to explosives and poison gas production in wartime, and increase logistics support. But there's no need to cooperate with the principality, right?"

She accentuated the word "cooperation" in a tone that anyone could tell was a source of resentment.

Freya is not a maniac, nor is she an ultra-nationalist or a great-power chauvinist, and it is not uncommon for consortiums to cooperate with outside forces in the past, and I have not seen her jump out against it. This time, I jumped out to question it because of the potential risks of the content of the cooperation.

"It's okay to transfer highly polluting and high-risk chemical plants to the principality, but why should the principality officials be involved? Although it is possible to produce poison gas and explosives for us in wartime, this kind of thing cannot be hidden from the principality at that time, and if they propose to produce these things for the principality's army, or ask for related technology, won't this amount to strengthening the strength of potential adversaries?"

At the end of the day, the last one is what she cares about.

The biggest advantage of the elves is the monopoly of technology, which is used as a basis to achieve a comprehensive transcendence of other intelligent species, and finally reach the point where the ideal of statehood can be realized. It is precisely because of the full experience and understanding of the benefits of advanced technology that the elves are particularly sensitive to the outflow of technology.

Chemical plants are nothing new in Alfheim. The elves have long been aware of its multifaceted nature. Factories that produce pesticides can easily be converted into chemical weapons factories that kill poison gas, and facilities that produce fertilizers can be adapted to make explosives. A joint venture with the Principality may only use raw, rudimentary equipment, and trained staff will only follow operating instructions. But accidents always come to the fore, just as Dr. Gerhard Schrader, who researched organophosphorus pesticides, synthesized sarin by some chance, so it is possible that the hairy bears will discover the little secret at some point - and even without thinking about it, they will soon think of enhancing the toxicity of pesticides - cyanide, organophosphates or organolitic compounds to kill people according to the needs of future wars.

It's almost inevitable, because that's what the elves themselves do.

"There are correct parts to your views and there are incorrect parts. ”

Li Lin replied with a wry smile:

"The establishment of joint ventures is not only an economic and technical issue, but also a political one, if we also need the principality to continue to serve our interests. We should give the orcs a little sweetness. Let that clay-footed giant continue to save zài. Instead of allowing the Romanov dynasty to collapse and spill the plague of revolution to the periphery for the sake of petty profits. ”

"Revolution?"

"Socialists, anarchists, opportunists, republicans, and a great multitude of people dissatisfied with the status quo - there are constant uprisings. Once the goal of changing the world has been achieved. These are excessively energetic. I don't know how to run the country. Sooner or later, violent elements who are powerless to change the plight of society will turn their fingers on the outside, hoping that the proletarians of the world will unite to change their own predicament. ”

"God......

Freya and Brunhill looked at each other, and then they immediately thought of the short-lived "Republic of St. Istvan".

After the initial triumphant joy has passed. The revolutionaries soon fell into the same phrase Engels used in his comments on the French Revolution - "Those who boast of having made a revolution often find the next day that they did not understand what they were doing, and that the outcome of the revolution was not at all what they had imagined." ”

There was no specific course of action, only empty political slogans and a vague and chaotic republican system, but this did not prevent them from calling on the people of Charlemagne to join in the "struggle against tyrants and tyranny". The always obedient crown leaders will do this, and instead of the orcs who are irritable and violent, it is only a matter of time before the revolution is exported.

"Although the violent institutions of the Principality are still able to carry out their duties effectively and will eventually be able to suppress the rebellion, the Principality's national strength will inevitably suffer a heavy blow as a result, and they will be restored to the state necessary to assume the important task of strategic containment...... This time span is completely disconnected from the strategic timeline we have developed. ”

The Elves needed the Duchy to contain Lapland and Charlemagne's garrison in Lapland when the "Yellow Plan" was launched, and an excessively weak and civil strife was clearly unable to accomplish this mission. The only way to solve this dilemma is to increase the national strength of the principality and solve some social contradictions.

"So you proposed to set up a joint venture chemical plant. ”

"That's right. ”

Creating employment is the quickest means to solve the hotbed of revolution, and after food and clothing, it is natural that they will seldom think about violent revolution, and even if some people carry out incitement and propaganda, how many people are willing to throw their heads and spill their blood when life can still go on? No matter how unhappy the citizens are with the government, how much they like to talk about the government's bad and bad things, as if they want to overthrow the government immediately. In the final analysis, it is only a grumbling, and the people who can live in peacetime have little interest in mixing in violent revolution. The root cause of the unrest in the Principality today is precisely the fact that the citizens are living in hardship and resentment against the government is approaching a critical point.

The joint venture factory proposed by Li Lin can solve this problem.

Take, for example, the Khomel Food Factory. Its main product is canned luncheon meat, which alone involves pig breeding, slaughtering, transportation, processing, container production and other related industries. It is enough to create tens of thousands or more jobs and provide enough food for St. Petersburg. Considering that there are dwarves and camel tribes who do not eat pork in the Principality, as well as white elephants who migrated from Albion and do not eat beef, the breeding and processing of related cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks can create many jobs and profit points, and the role of the relevant cattle in stabilizing the society is obvious.

As for the combined carbide. Due to the greater number of industries involved, there are also more jobs, plus the direct contribution of fertilizers and pesticides to the Principality's agriculture. With a little patience, the Duchy will gradually settle down and take on the responsibility of covering Alfheim's back.

'Technical Leakage Problem ......'

"As long as you are prepared in terms of training and daily production, the probability of making poison gas and explosives according to the instructions and training is very low. There are no specialized chemical theorists and chemists on the Duchy's side, and even if you know that chemical plants can be included in the production of armaments, it is meaningless not to understand the specific operating procedures. In contrast, the orcs' penchant for vodka worries me even more, and God knows if any drunkard will make a toxic leak. ”

That's what comes into mind. Li Lin dismissed the establishment of a biomedical company in the principality. And the idea of establishing a town called "Raccoon Town" centered on a pharmaceutical company. At most, the leakage of chemical substances means that the land in a certain area cannot be used for decades, and the bacteria and viruses studied by the Biological Research Institute of the Defense Forces, especially the Umbrella research, once leaked and spread due to the careless operation of a certain drunkard......

It's a shame to give up on this idea, but canning and chemical factories are enough to absorb some of the social pressures. It's done. Li Lin had no intention of industrializing the principality. It is enough to do this.

This alone also made Count Orlov extremely excited. In the following talks, he "naturally" proposed to strengthen bilateral relations and upgrade them from "strategic cooperative partners" to "fraternal friendship cemented in blood" -- to put it bluntly. It is hoped that the consortium will establish an independent state or completely control Charlemagne as soon as possible, and then work with the principality to completely solve the "Lapland problem".

The high-level officials of the principality, including Grand Elder Vitte, are soberly aware that as long as there is a fulcrum in Lapland, the human camp can always use various levers such as economic, political, and military to intervene in the principality. Neither Albion nor Charlemagne would allow the Duchy to comfortably swallow Lapland. The principality's lack of strategic security, as well as its long-cherished desire to acquire ice-free ports, determined that they must swallow Lapland to expand their strategic depth and use it as a springboard to the south. Based on these contradictions, as well as problems such as history and faith, the principality's top brass is keenly aware that no matter which country they cooperate with in the human camp, they will not let the principality swallow Lapland, so they will not hesitate to put aside the internal struggle and fight the principality for the time being. With this, they must foster a force that is friendly to the principality and at odds with the human nations, and take advantage of the rise of this power to carve up Lapland with it.

There is no doubt that only the consortium meets the above needs. The financial and powerful were impeccable, and judging by the various signs of cooperation between them and the principality, their ambitions were not trivial. As long as you make good use of it, you can not only cause trouble for Charlemagne, but if you are lucky, you can also solve Lapland.

"Count Orlov told me that it was not worth keeping Lapland and that it should be occupied completely. ”

Li Lin paused, and said in a tone that imitated Count Orlov's, a serious tone without the slightest moral guilt:

"'Independent Lapland is, after all, the source of the world's long-term unrest...... With these considerations in mind, I am convinced that it would be better to keep the territory that is conceptually part of Lapland ethnically in the hands of a single state, the new state created by the consortium. The consortium will then be able to do as it pleases there...... The consortium will do very good and profitable things. With all of this, the Special Envoy invited me to visit the Duchy of Wèn as soon as possible, so that I could meet with the Grand Elder Witte on how to divide Lapland. ”

"What a passion. ”

"Not only that, but the zealous Count Orlov also imagined the preparations for entering Lapland, military, political, and Oklana, sending a special task force to hunt down, dispose of, and eliminate the political, economic, cultural, and religious core figures of the Lapland people, and to extinguish the rebellion. ”

"Oh, that's an exaggeration. ”

Brunhill shook her head, she couldn't understand how an earl could be so concerned about such a thing, as if Orlov were not a diplomat, but a concentration camp commander or a spy chief.

She did not know that, in addition to the "Einsatzgruppen", Count Orlov was also very eager to consult Li Lin on the possibility of building a "model facility" similar to the Katyn Forest, so that the principality could build a similar and efficient facility to replace the Gulag and deal with the endless stream of political criminals and mobs. Li Lin also happily agreed to build a small-scale concentration camp first, and provided a "steam room" in the form of the "Lend-Lease Act", an elevator that carried 25 corpses at a time, a three-story giant crematorium, a fat decomposition device for making soap, and other equipment for the principality to experience......

The principality was not the Soviet Union, and Yarfheim was not Nazi Germany, but in some respects they had already established what Comrade Iron called "the brotherly friendship between the German people and the Soviet people" between Red Imperialism and Black Fascism, and it was only time to discuss "the two countries working together to make the ugly thing of Lapland disappear from the face of the face of the earth". In order to promote this "friendship", in addition to interests, it is necessary to lubricate with blood - mob, revolutionary, minority, human ...... A thick layer of blood.

Officers don't need to know these things, and it's not good for them to know what they shouldn't know, either for their personal future or for the country.

They only need to know one thing.

“...... The Principality will continue to repay all kinds of loans in the form of barter, plus the company's enclosure farms, pastures, mines, lumberyards, and livestock farms in the Principality. According to rough estimates, by the middle of next year, we will receive 1,612,100 tons of grains, 166,000 tons of soybeans, 42,600 tons of beef, 21,200 tons of vegetable oil, 4,981 tons of fat, 14,638 tons of dried nuts, 2,482 tons of rapeseed, 1,921 tons of dried coconut meat, 78,114 tons of whale oil, 24,761 tons of fish oil, 4,182 tons of glycerin, 200,000 tons of cotton, 140,000 tons of cotton yarn and silk, 368 tons of raw silk, 1,963 tons of hemp fiber, 121 tons of wool, 122,800 tons of wood, 202,000 tons of phosphate, 165,000 tons of manganese ore, 23,400 tons of chrome ore, 587 tons of tin ore, 260 tons of antimony ore...... Enough for the needs of the war. ”

Counting jù is boring, but translating it into a simple and easy-to-understand concept will give you an idea of what a huge resource it is – before Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, and launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union, the total amount of reserves was roughly close to the above-mentioned number jù.

In other words, in terms of resources, the elven camp is fully prepared. Even in the face of the embargo, it was difficult for the overseas colonies to send supplies back to China in a timely manner. The Defence Force also has ample reserves of resources to support the operation until the final victory.

"Diplomacy, politics, and resources are all in place, and there is only one thing left. ”

The boyish face hung the corners of his mouth, and the henchmen looked at each other and smiled.

"Before the war, how could there be no sacrifices? ”

As if from the bottom of his heart, Li Lin said casually. (To be continued......)