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Text Chapter 698: Changes in Situation

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    As time passed, the strange fleet located outside the Mars gravitational circle showed no signs of movement, so people on the earth gradually let go of their nervousness.  Although there are still a small number of people who insist that aliens will come to "visit" the earth sooner or later, most people no longer care about this matter and begin to live in dreams again.

    And two months later, Liu Jinpeng finally got the notice from Yi Di that Lin Lin was back!

    After Lin Lin came out of the World Tree, his body became obviously taller. In the past, it only reached Liu Jinpeng¡¯s chest, but now he can reach his chin.  Moreover, Lin Lin's appearance also looks more mature. Her personality is still a bit introverted. When she sees Liu Jinpeng, she will hide in her arms without saying a word.

    "You seem to have gotten older?" Liu Jinpeng was also at a loss for words, and gently touched Lin Lin's two-foot-long hair, which seemed to be silky and soft.

    "Well," Lin Lin still spoke concisely, looking up at the man with love in his eyes, "it will take a long time for the baby to arrive. It's a girl. You don't mind, right?"

    "Could it be that the Yilan people can still give birth to boys?" Liu Jinpeng joked with a joking attitude.

    Lin Lin looked at him angrily: "There are only girls, so do you mind?"

    Liu Jinpeng hugged her tightly: "I haven't lied to you, I really like girls."

    The two hugged each other wordlessly for a while. The branches and leaves of the World Tree rustled in the wind. Lin Lin raised his head and said, "The plan has been delayed for a long time. It's all because of me. I'm sorry."

    Liu Jinpeng was not in a hurry and comforted him: "Not yet. It will take several months for the Nuwa to be completed. Then you can be more impressive. Although the shipyard tries its best to hide on the back side of Mars where the earth cannot see it, the time is too long.  It won¡¯t be good if it takes too long, once the Nuwa is completed, you have to set off.¡±

    "How is the situation on Earth?"

    "not too good."

    In fact, on the surface, the United States negotiated harmoniously with the Han Empire and held one meeting after another, but secretly these Americans also made a lot of preparations.  Teddy Locke has sensed some abnormal changes, such as the strengthening of U.S. arms sales to India.  and the intensification of U.S. economic and military aid to South Africa, all aimed at suppressing imperial power in Southeast Asia and Southwest Africa.

    Teddy Locke didn¡¯t want to provide this information at first, but Liu Jinpeng had already obtained some information from Kent, and Teddy Locke had to follow suit.  In fact, even if he didn't say anything, Liu Jinpeng would know that Yi Di collected dozens of tons of intelligence every day and was not just doing it for free.

    The empire is currently working hard to promote nuclear fusion and power grid transformation in the country, but the stubborn vested interests in the past still need to be eliminated in circles, and the external response is not so timely.  The empire has placed great confidence in the African food plan, and the grain industry group is making good progress in Tanzania and Angola.  Just watch these two East and West African countries escape from the food crisis.

    But it soon became clear that the United States was secretly instigating South Africa to use the border demarcation issue to help Namibia launch a small-scale attack on Angola and capture a small area.  After taking advantage, South Africa was not satisfied and wanted to continue its offensive and occupy Angola's oil-producing areas.  Angola had to fight back, and the three countries suddenly fought together. The fighting became more and more intense, and it had the tendency to develop into a full-scale war.

    South Africa is considered a military power in southern Africa. Without foreign aid, Angola cannot support it for long.  Soon Zambia and Tanzania had to send troops to support Namibia.  Because they both need its oil, and South Africa's intention is clearly to seize Angola's oil output.

    Since last year, South Africa has been interested in Angolan oil and has criticized the Angola-Zambia-Tanzania oil pipeline.  Strongly demanding the construction of an oil pipeline from Angola to South Africa was, to some extent, poaching the Han Empire, and relations between the two countries began to gradually deteriorate.

    Although Namibia has become independent from South Africa, South Africa is still basically responsible for its own military defense, so it can only follow South Africa's instructions, which is pitiful to say the least.

    South Africa¡¯s appetite is growing with the support of the United States, and it even shamelessly sent a note to Angola asking it to close the oil pipeline to Tanzania. Most of the oil in this pipeline will enter the imperial pocket.  Of course South Africa looks jealous.

    Except for the fact that the war in Africa is in full swing.  India is now unwilling to be alone and has begun to try to carry out small-scale attacks on Pakistan to test the reaction of the Han Empire.  Imperial cargo ships in the Indian Ocean are often randomly inspected by Third Brother's warships.  It's obviously intentional.

    Of course, it¡¯s not all bad.

    For various reasons, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia sent diplomatic envoys respectively. Afghanistan is the second head of the government, and Saudi Arabia is the man Liu Jinpeng has met.Prince Khalid.

    Afghanistan¡¯s request is very simple. It asks the Han Empire to help Afghanistan build a water pipeline from Karachi or Gwadar in Pakistan to Afghanistan. This purified water pipeline can greatly alleviate drought and famine in Afghanistan.  In return, Afghanistan is willing to use the blue dollar as its national settlement currency, which means giving up the previous dollar and switching to the blue dollar camp.

    Saudi Arabia itself is an oil-producing country, and has always been one of the empire's diversified oil import channels. Currently, they hope to introduce nuclear fusion furnaces, even if they do not take an absolute share, hoping to use ultra-cheap electricity prices to carry out modern industrial transformation.  , to preserve their glory and wealth in the post-oil era.

    Saudi Arabia is a very special country in the Middle East. It has always been a die-hard ally of the United States. However, the Americans obviously did not expect this operation. They were shocked and made a stupid move.  Severely condemning Saudi Arabia's behavior as a betrayal, Saudi Arabia and the Arab League jointly issued a statement condemning the United States for interfering in other countries' internal affairs.

    Originally, Afghanistan was the only barrier between the Empire and Persia, but now Afghanistan has also fallen to the Empire. The United States felt disappointed. This time it did not condemn Afghanistan's betrayal. It probably knew that it had little prestige there.

    There is great pressure from the outside of the empire, but it is not without gains. At least the joint negotiations of the Southeast Asian Association have made considerable progress. Among the Eastern Association countries, there are many Southeast Asian countries, including Burma, Annan, Thailand, Luzon, and Java. They are all representatives.  It called for further strengthening economic and trade exchanges in the Eastern Economic Circle, and reached an agreement on the issue of building the first fusion reactor.

    Thailand will become the first country in Southeast Asia to build a fusion furnace. In the future, the Southeast Asian Association's power distribution will be organized into a dedicated department to distribute it, rather than being handled by each country alone. This means that the integration of Southeast Asia has taken a big step forward.  step.

    At the same time, the tentacles of the empire also began to extend to South America. Brazil and Argentina, two major South American countries, put aside their past grievances and began to coordinate how to distribute electricity if a nuclear fusion reactor could be built in Brazil.  Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Bolivia and other countries have also expressed their willingness to join this coordination organization, and the distribution will eventually be carried out with the South American Union as the core.

    Seeing this good thing, countries in Central America and other countries also wanted to get a share of the pie, but the United States finally couldn't help it. It was setting fire to its own backyard.  In the end, Mexico stepped forward to appease the Chinese and American countries, but Panama still secretly flirted with Venezuela.

    Having said all that, are Europe and Russia just going to watch?

    "Obviously not. Russia has discovered the trend of frustration in the empire's oil imports. When nuclear fusion has not completely replaced oil, the empire's oil imports are still an indispensable material.  At this time, Russia immediately sent senior officials to Beijing to negotiate, willing to provide the empire with oil and natural gas products sufficient to fill the gap, but hoped that the empire would support Russia in recovering or partially recovering the territory it had during the World War.

    To put it bluntly, Mao Xiong just wants the Han Empire to spit out some bones for it, otherwise it won¡¯t be able to pay for oil in vain.

    The Europeans are more shrewd in their calculations. Their representative intention is that Europe is willing to join the nuclear abandonment process led by the Han Empire and the electricity currency price control circle led by the Han Empire, but the degree of openness of nuclear fusion must be higher.  These "gentlemen" hoped to take home the chicken that laid the golden eggs directly from the empire, but all they paid was some verbal promises.

    The imperial government was having a hard time coping, but it was not to the point where it couldn't cope. Li Jingwen said to Liu Jinpeng: "Don't look at Old Shen frowning all day long, but he is actually happy in his heart."

    The father-in-law must have something to do when he called his son-in-law, but he was beating around the bush: "It's time to release those secret hands of yours. Let me see how powerful your plan is."

    Liu Jinpeng knew what was going on, but he was confused: "I don't have any hidden agenda. I'm just an ordinary businessman."

    Li Jingwen annoyed him like this: "You are still an ordinary businessman. If ordinary businessmen were like you, our country would have rushed out of the solar system long ago!"

    Liu Jinpeng giggled: "It's not yet time, don't worry, you'll be so angry that Xiwen will fall out with me."

    Li Jingwen had nothing to do with this lazy guy. He sighed and said, "You can do whatever you want. We are all old, and it will be your time in the future."

    Liu Jinpeng smiled and said: "It's too early to say this. You can continue to work for another hundred years without any problem."

    Li Jingwen perked up: "What do you mean?"

    "We can't say it yet," Liu Jinpeng wanted to sell it off, but couldn't hold back his contempt, "Well, in fact, it is to promote genetic enhancement. In the future, the average life expectancy will be at least 140 years old, so you can't do it for another ten years."

      Li Jingwen was delighted with this information for a while and then he came to his senses: "Good boy, you can do one trap after another. You can do it."

    "It's a prize, it's a prize," Liu Jinpeng knew that he couldn't hide this, so he simply admitted it. "The increase in life span will cause many social problems. I think the interstellar government must encourage childbirth and no longer have any plans."

    ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about it,¡± Li Jingwen had already begun to make calculations. ¡°How long will it take for your plan to go ahead? If it¡¯s quick, you have to build momentum now.¡±

    ¡°Soon, in three to five months at most, I think we can build momentum now.¡±

    "Then let's do it."
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