DipNovel Chapter 48: Flesh and Blood Suffering
Chapter 48: Flesh and Blood Suffering
The post-peace talks strategy has two main components: domestic and international.
Domestically, the focus is mainly on two words: defense and stability.
"Prevention" refers to a military approach of appearing relaxed on the surface but maintaining tight control underneath, taking precautions against potential problems.
On the surface, this reduces the level of public deterrence, creates an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence, and lowers the guard of the outside world.
Meanwhile, the entire army continued to maintain a high level of combat readiness, with frontline troops conducting covert patrols, focusing on preventing Wan Shuiye and his gang from engaging in covert thefts and launching surprise attacks.
Stability refers to strictly controlling domestic public opinion and building consensus.
After the peace talks, there will definitely be public confusion and dissatisfaction, with people thinking that the leadership is weak and incompetent, and even suspecting that there is a mole within the organization.
In response, we must be especially vigilant against individuals with ulterior motives who may take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble, fan the flames, distort the true purpose of the peace talks, and undermine domestic unity.
At the same time, we must gradually release signals of economic recovery and improved livelihoods, guide the public to see the deeper considerations behind "trading face for substance," resolve public opinion conflicts, and build consensus on national development.
The strategy abroad is much simpler: take advantage of the stable international situation, do everything possible to accumulate development capital, and make full preparations for long-term development.
Specifically, one approach is to take advantage of the stable international situation and ample resource supply to increase the import volume of various raw materials and stockpile as many core raw materials as possible.
Secondly, leveraging its current strength and influence, it can try to lower the price of imported raw materials, reduce production costs, and alleviate financial pressure.
Third, we should proactively engage with more resource-rich countries, using long-term orders and technological cooperation as bait to establish stable cooperative relationships and ensure, as far as possible, that the future supply of raw materials is not affected by fluctuations in the international situation.
Why not use a complete peace treaty to slowly boil down the tax collectors and their associates, gradually squeezing out their value or controlling them?
To maintain the support of the Tax Lords, the peace treaty should be announced in a way that is only half revealed: only the concessions made by their own side should be disclosed, without revealing the price the Tax Lords will have to pay.
Otherwise, let alone stabilizing the approval rating of Tax Master Wan and his group, it would be a question whether they could even survive until the next day.
After all, the complete peace treaty can be described as a defeat reparations treaty in which the Tax Lord and his ilk sold out their country's interests in exchange for their own future.
Therefore, the complete peace treaty can also be seen as leverage against Wan Shuiye and his associates.
However, this is just talk; in reality, this leverage is a grenade that explodes at the slightest touch, and whoever touches it first will die.
If we dare to use that leverage to exploit or control the Tax Lords, they will dare to publish the complete peace treaty, then use facts to prove their own ill intentions, and then incite international public opinion to damage their own international image.
At the same time, the tax collectors can also establish a glorious image of sacrificing their own reputation for peace, and being unafraid of threats to the country, willing to sacrifice their own political future to resist.
By then, the tax collectors will not be exploited or controlled, and they can take the opportunity to tear up the peace treaty. They can also naturally cancel the joint fleet without affecting their approval rating, and may even increase it. At the same time, they will also damage their own international image. It's a win-win situation and a huge profit.
Not only did they fail to get their own money, but they also failed to extract any additional value from the tax collectors and their associates, and even lost their long-established good international image. They truly lost both their money and their reputation.
Conversely, if the tax collectors slander or frame their own people without any substantial action or additional value to their own side, then their side would have a legitimate reason to retaliate and punish the guilty.
At that time, there would be no peace treaty that spared face and only involved paying money; instead, there would be a series of defeat reparations, including ceding territory, paying money, and handing over people.
"Beep~"
Just as Guo Yi finished reading the second item on the agenda of the small meeting, Wen Shu suddenly appeared and reported: "Report, the control test of test subject number one has been completed, and the test has passed."
"It passed!?"
Guo Yi's eyes lit up instantly. He casually tossed the documents in his hand onto the table, got up, and strode towards his private independent laboratory.
Unlike Zhou Lao and his colleagues, Guo Yi did not have a dedicated state-owned laboratory at the shipyard.
Firstly, Guo Yi already had the process and results of the corresponding project in his mind; he only needed to understand and verify them. Unlike Professor Zhou and his colleagues, he did not need to go through repeated trial and error and deduction in the laboratory to arrive at the correct process and results.
Secondly, Guo Yi's knowledge is too extensive. If we were to build a dedicated laboratory for him, it would be equivalent to rebuilding all of Zhou Lao's and everyone else's laboratories and then integrating them together, which would be time-consuming, labor-intensive, expensive, and require a lot of space.
Thirdly, the appearance of Wen Shu further reduced the frequency of Guo Yi's use of the laboratory, and he did not need much equipment for each experiment.
In addition, Guo Yi has priority access to all the shipyard's laboratories. Whenever he needs them, he can stop the operation of any laboratory at any time without conditions and then requisition that laboratory.
Therefore, there is no need to establish a dedicated state-owned assets laboratory for Guo Yi.
However, the privilege of requisitioning only applies to state-owned research projects such as mechs and spaceships.
If Guo Yi needs to use the laboratory for research on non-state-owned projects for personal interest or other purposes, then he must wait until Professor Zhou's laboratory is available, and it is absolutely essential that it does not affect the progress of state-owned projects.
Therefore, Guo Yi rented a building in the shipyard at his own expense and built his own private independent laboratory to study projects that he was interested in but were not state-owned projects.
For example, Guo Yi is currently researching artificial intelligent prostheses, also known as intelligent prostheses, neuroprostheses, bioelectronic devices, bionic prostheses, etc.
Based on the different methods of controlling the prosthesis, intelligent prostheses can be divided into three main categories: myoelectric prostheses, neuroprostheses, and brain-computer interface prostheses.
Myoelectric prostheses are prostheses that collect electromyographic signals generated by muscle contractions in the residual limb of amputees, analyze and process them through an electronic system, and then convert them into prosthetic movement commands.
The most advanced myoelectric prostheses currently available can improve the accuracy of recognizing the movement intentions of amputees to over 96.4% by combining high-density electrode arrays with AI algorithms, fully meeting the daily needs of amputees.
However, since myoelectric prostheses are driven by the electromyographic signals generated by the contraction of the residual limb muscles in amputees, if the residual limb muscles of amputees are insufficient or their function declines, the signal acquisition will be unstable, affecting the control accuracy.
Neuroprosthetics, on the other hand, use devices to connect to the nervous system of the amputee's wound, thereby enabling control of the prosthesis.
This is why neuroprosthetics are not very comfortable to wear, and long-term wear may irritate wounds, cause nerve sensitivity or inflammation.
At the same time, the stability of the equipment connection is insufficient, and it is susceptible to external interference (such as electromagnetic interference and humidity), which may lead to control interruption.
In addition, neuroprosthetics have strict requirements on the degree of wound healing and the state of nerve remnant in amputees. Therefore, some severely amputees cannot use neuroprosthetics.
Brain-computer interface prostheses are further divided into two categories: invasive and non-invasive.
Invasive methods involve implanting ultra-flexible neural electrodes into the human body, and then combining them with AI decoding to directly decode the precise intentions for controlling limb movement from the residual neural signals of amputees.
Although this type of prosthesis has high decoding accuracy, it is prone to instruction delays or misjudgments due to individual differences in neural pathways.
Furthermore, implantation surgery carries risks such as infection and nerve damage.
At the same time, because the implanted device remains in the body for a long time, amputees may experience rejection reactions, and the later maintenance costs are extremely high.
Non-invasive prostheses control the limb by collecting the amputee's brainwave signals through an external device. However, these external devices are bulky, inconvenient to carry, and cannot decode the amputee's fine motor intentions, only enabling basic movements such as grasping and walking.
In addition, the signals collected by external devices are easily affected by the environment and human condition (such as emotions and fatigue).
Each type of intelligent prosthesis has its advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, Guo Yi combined the three types of intelligent prostheses by taking the best of both worlds and discarding the worst.