Thousands of sparks

Chapter 127 Psychological Struggle
Two hours later, Dusande was sitting in his office, finishing his late-night sandwich.

Due to the high level of confidentiality of the next intelligence analysis, Dusand didn't even dare to put the two results in the steam carriage and take them home for comparison.

Mr Byrne's office was probably the best place in the whole Office of Arms for this kind of work.After Ms. Tamara closed the door, Dusand put the two documents together and began to compare them.

Of course, the wars between the Empire and the Alliance will not always be maintained on the same scale.During the hundreds of years of war, the intensity of the war also showed certain fluctuations.

The intensity of war is a comparative dimension that is difficult to quantify directly.However, Dusand and the staff of the Intelligence Analysis Office created a set of evaluation criteria.Taking the offensive initiated by the empire as the main body, taking the number of recruits and casualties as the reference dimension, supplemented by the distance and intention of the attack launched by the empire, and by empowering different data, the calculation of the intensity of the war is completed.

Of course, such data is not very accurate, but it is enough as a reference.

On the other hand, the economic situation of the empire is mainly calculated based on fiscal revenue, the amount of war bonds issued that year, the fiscal surplus of the year, and the average coal price of the 24 colonial stars.Although there is no specific population data of the colony, Olin has a relatively complete household registration system such as birth and death records.With this data, Dusand was at least able to determine the demographic changes in Olin.

As for data such as GDP and CPI that Du Sande had heard in the news in his previous life... Of course, there is no such thing.

But as reference data to verify the conjecture, these are enough.

After quickly taking a few values ​​for comparison, Dusand simply superimposed the two line graphs with data drawn on them, and looked at them against the light.

After a few minutes, he put down the data in his hand and began to rub his face.

This fucking... is outrageous.

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The financial revenue of the empire fluctuates every year. After all, the income that the colonies can provide and the number of recruits that the empire can fit into the army are limited.

And every time there is a relatively obvious increase in the income of the empire, the price of coal will also rise accordingly.At this time, the empire will immediately expand the scale of conscription, and then quickly launch an offensive on the frontal battlefield.

If the year is used as the statistical unit, it can be found that almost every large-scale attack in the empire occurred after a significant improvement in income.However, if you take the month as the statistical unit, you can find that the empire will start to increase the number of conscription and weapons purchases in the second month after the obvious increase in income.And launch a large-scale offensive within three months.

In other words, whenever the empire's financial revenue rises and energy prices rise, a large number of imperial citizens will turn into soldiers and then be driven to die on the battlefield.

Although there were several peaks in the intensity of the war that did not match the economic situation of the empire, Dusande could also guess that the changes in the intensity of the war at these times were probably caused by the alliance's attack.

He put down the information in his hand, then rubbed his head.

To be honest, Dusande had a rough estimate of the empire's situation ever since he traveled over and learned that his family was actually an aristocrat.A country with aristocrats, of course, is unlikely to take the people seriously.

But... it can't be like this, can it?It's not like launching a war specifically, and then throwing your own people into a meat grinder, right?

He felt his head hurt and his body was cold, as if he had a high fever.

Even more frightening is the "tacit understanding" between the alliance and the empire.

The offensive mode of the empire is certainly not a difficult secret for the alliance.The two sides have infiltrated each other for so many years. If even Du Sande can see that the empire's offensive mode is related to the economic situation, it is impossible for the smart people of the alliance to fail to see it.

However, the alliance did not rely on predicting the momentum of the empire's offensive to pull it, nor did it take advantage of the victory when the empire's economic situation was not good.Considering what Escobar said that "the empire has the means to completely destroy the alliance", and it has been done a long time ago...

Then, there is one and only one reason that can explain the centuries-old war between the empire and the alliance.

The empire and the alliance are not just a simple hostile relationship. The empire is using the war with the alliance to export internal conflicts—it may even be using the soldiers of the alliance to deal with young and middle-aged citizens for the empire.

Why?Why do you want to do this?Why did the alliance reach a tacit agreement with the empire?
Dusand's mind was full of question marks. It wasn't that he couldn't understand the joints, but he didn't understand why such a thing happened.

Yes, the Empire needs an enemy to ensure a high degree of internal unity.This enemy must have no possibility of any peace and compromise with the Empire - both sides must be sworn enemies from beginning to end.And this mortal enemy cannot really threaten the survival of the empire, at least not the royal family.

The rising trend of the empire's fiscal revenue means that tax revenue has increased, which means that apart from the empire, the wealth of a large number of factory owners and nobles will increase.Collecting the assets in their hands through the forced apportionment of war bonds can prevent them from continuing to expand their power and become a political threat that the royal family cannot handle.

Using the alliance to eliminate young and middle-aged people can reduce unemployed youth and reduce the number and size of workers in factories.At the same time, the threat to the royal family from the poor and factory owners was reduced.

Thinking of this, Du Sande suddenly shuddered vigorously, as if he was naked outdoors in the winter and was poured a large basin of cold water with ice shards from the beginning to the end.

He seems to know what the Salvador plan is.

In recent decades, the empire has found no new colonies.On the other hand, the alliance gradually began to reverse the situation of the battle and violated the "tacit understanding" between the two sides.The military threat brought by the alliance to the empire is growing, and the alliance that uses racism to unify and integrate internal resources can squeeze out greater war potential and resources than the empire.

This means that the alliance is no longer the opponent who can "share the pressure" for the empire, and it has officially upgraded to an enemy that can threaten the survival of the empire.

At such a time, what choice would a royal family who was determined to maintain its rule make?
Du Sande only knew that if he was asked to do it, he would most likely launch the plan that could completely eliminate the alliance immediately.The greatest respect for the enemy is to kill them all.

And the Salvador plan...does it mean that the empire needs a second rebel, Salvador, and a second hostile force to take on the "work" of the previous alliance?
No matter what the process of Salvador's plan itself is, but by killing half of the population on Niusal, the empire will definitely be able to reap a deadly enemy.4000 million people will regard the empire as a deadly enemy, but with only 4000 million people in Newsail, it is absolutely impossible to pose a direct threat to the empire.

Dusand smiled wryly, probably because the empire was afraid that Newsail, who had been massacred by half of its population, would not be able to "take on the heavy responsibility", so it also prepared a "novice gift package" for this "reserve rebel" - as mentioned in the intelligence. Of the six colonial stars that are about to be attacked by the Alliance, two are currently being attacked by the Alliance, and there are three that have not blocked information from Newsail.

These six colonial stars are probably the material basis for making Newsail the next alliance.Empire does... cost a lot.

Dusande sighed and gave up thinking.

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After returning home, Du Sande said nothing.Nor did he try to wake his sleeping parents.Sitting on the bed alone, he was obviously very sleepy, but he didn't even think about changing clothes and lying down.

Two paths lay before him.

As a person who has lived a new life, Dusande is not so... satisfied with his new life.But he still cherishes this life very much.

After finally getting used to surrogate tea, how can I live if I travel to a place where I wear animal skins and wield big sticks?
Therefore, out of cherishing and loving his own life, he should take all his family and friends on board the shuttle ship fleeing to the Star Sea Federation right now.Regardless of what the Federation looks like, at least there can be a few days of peace there.

But on the other hand, Dusander knows better than anyone that this plan is completely unfeasible.If there is no New Sal as a substitute for the alliance, there is a high probability that the empire, which urgently needs to find a "waste" opponent to deal with, will look to the Star Sea Federation.

Abandoning family and business to a completely unfamiliar country cannot escape the flames of war.

A more important reason is... 8000 million imperial citizens live on Newsail.Of course, Dusande couldn't have met every one of them, but they did live here for generations.Work hard and live hard.They are earning money to support their families and doing their best for a better future.

Just to maintain the royal rule, half of them must be sacrificed, and then hundreds of millions of people will die every year in the next few hundred years?

Just for that damn imperial power?

Dusande sat on the bed and silently clenched his fists.

If El Salvador's plan is indeed as he estimated, threatening Olin with the emperor's bloodline... I am afraid it will be of little value.This would only make the emperor quicken his pace, and then blame the rumors on "the ramblings of rebels."

The only possible way to change the situation is assassination.And the assassination must be on a large scale—besides the emperor, the targets of the assassination must also include almost all high-ranking officials of the empire.From the Treasurer to the Empress, from the Olympian Administration to the Mining Consortium.Only when the assassination turns into massacre can the El Salvador plan be completely paralyzed.

But if Dusande has this kind of power... then why would he bother with assassination?Go directly to Austria with a knife, kill the emperor and take the bird position... Isn't that faster?
After thinking wildly for a while, Dusand sadly discovered a fact - when the empire decided to create an enemy for itself, their means were impossible for Newsail to resist.

Shouldn't that be running away?After all, it is unlikely that the empire will go to the federation immediately. Maybe Dusande himself will die of old age when the imperial soldiers point directly at the federation?

That night, Dusand kept fighting mentally until the sky gradually brightened.

The golden sun shone on his body, with thick dark circles under his eyes, Du Sande stood up silently, and walked towards the restaurant.

"Mother, father." After screening all the servants in the restaurant, Du Sande stared at his parents with red and bloodshot eyes and said his thoughts, "For survival, for 4000 million The lives of even more citizens of the empire, in order to stop the royal family that has fallen into madness...we must resist!"

(End of this chapter)