Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country.

At noon~

On a street in Shibuya District, Tokyo.

David's car was parked at an intersection, waiting for a traffic light.

(I didn’t finish yesterday’s post because I was too tired. This paragraph is a continuation of the conversation between David and Messia in the car.)

Mejia told David that he specifically mentioned the "skin draft", which was the first "collapse method" corruption scandal exposed by Xiong Daguo in recent decades. .

More than half of the more than 200 senior police officers arrested by the National Security Council (TCSS) for the "skin draft" are retired officers, and the remaining half also have their own profound backgrounds. .

Fur products are a fashionable product loved by everyone in Xiong Daguo.

Although the people involved in selling "fake goods" broke the law, the quality of the fur products they sold was all up to standard, and some were even top-notch. .

If TCSS continues to pursue the investigation, it will definitely involve more high-level officials who have received or bought "fake furs", and the trouble will be impossible to end. .

Therefore, Yuri, the top leader of TCSS, could only turn a blind eye to the matter and vent all his anger on the corrupt Ministry of Internal Affairs. .

On the other hand, among the people who were arrested and sentenced to light sentences in the "Pi Draft", nearly one-third of them have completed their sentences and been released from prison. .

However, the final outcome of the farce of "Draft Skin" has had a very far-reaching negative impact on the image of Xiong Daguo's government agencies in the hearts of ordinary people~

Xiong Daguo has 4500 million workers engaged in low-skilled manual labor. .

There are 1360 million workers engaged in heavy transportation and warehouse work alone, 80% of which are pure manual labor.

These jobs that are purely manual labor are not very attractive to the young people of Xiong Daguo who have received systematic education, and there are many positions that are deliberately reserved to ensure "full employment." .

Even the wages of some types of work are not as high as the money received from unemployment benefits. .

These young people born in the 50s were dissatisfied with their work assignments after the case broke out, and began to be passive and deliberately unemployed on a large scale. They would rather deliberately lose their jobs to receive unemployment benefits than to work anymore. .

Throughout 76, more than people across the country were arrested and tried for violating Chapter of the Constitution, "The Crime of Social Parasitism," by slacking off at work, not working at their jobs during working hours, and intentionally losing their jobs. .

When the media in various European countries reported this "odd news", they also specially gave it a name. .

"Unemployment crime"!

. . .

When Mexia finished telling these "backstory", the car they were riding in had already reached the street only about two hundred meters away from the Tokyo Imperial Hotel. .

There seemed to be a traffic accident ahead, causing the lane to be filled with vehicles waiting to pass.

David saw the traffic jam and felt a little tired from the car ride. He wanted to go for a walk, so he simply invited Mecia to get off the car and walk to the hotel.

After the two got off the car, David walked to the car where Kanes and Manqi were riding, pointed at the police who were directing traffic in the distance, said a few words, and then took Mecia and walked slowly towards the hotel "coolly" Go~

on the way.

Mecia took David's arm and leaned forward. She tilted her head and glanced at David, who was looking around, and lowered his voice.

"These "weird" events that occurred in the bear country were widely circulated in European countries..."

"An unexpected incident made everyone shut up..."

"On the night of November 1977, 11, a huge transport formation of three different types of transport aircraft took off from the Black Sea and Bulgarian military bases in the great country of Bear, and headed south across the Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula~"

"After some of the planes made a temporary landing in Tripoli to refuel, they flew through Nepal and Chad and directly arrived at the border firefighting zone between Ethiopia and Somalia in the East African country, preparing to help Ethiopia retake the Ogaden region."

"In this airlift alone, Xiong Daguo's air force transported enough T55 tanks, combat vehicles and rocket launchers to equip three divisions."

"In addition, 48 MiG-21 fighters, 16 Mi-24A armed helicopters, and T62 tanks, known as the king of land warfare, were also transported to Ethiopia."

"In the following days, Xiong's transport aircraft fleet changed its route again, taking off from Tashkent and Almaty airports and heading south across Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was divided into seven groups and followed different routes to reach three destinations in Ethiopia. ”

"The TCSS overseas agents responsible for providing intelligence and security work for this operation provided a lot of false information to the countries these routes passed through in order to ensure the surprise and confidentiality of the air transportation."

"Furthermore, in order to ensure the communication security of this operation, Xiong Daguo also specially launched a communication satellite."

"Such a sudden secret operation by Xiong Daguo caused the intelligence agencies of the United States, Iran, Turkey, Israel and other countries to go crazy and search for information."

"But even the CIA in the United States and MI5 in the UK don't know what they are going to do, and it is even less likely that the others will learn the truth due to the deliberate concealment of the TCSS agents."

"So, they can only order the domestic air force to enter the first level of combat readiness and wait and see first."

"According to subsequent statistics from the British MI1977, the Xiong Daguo secret airlift operation began on November 11, 25 and ended in mid-December. It lasted about 12 days and dispatched a total of more than 20 large transport aircraft."

"In addition to the first airlift to Ethiopia of equipment and ammunition sufficient to equip three armored divisions, it also transported military supplies worth more than 10 billion U.S. dollars and 150 military helicopters."

"In addition, 1500 military advisers and 17000 soldiers from the Xiong Kingdom were also airlifted to the East African battlefield."

"With their help, Ethiopia's rival Somalia was defeated..."

"The United States, which has been supporting Somalia from behind, ignored its plea for help and chose to wait and see."

"It wasn't until the spring of 1978, when Ethiopia retook the Ogaden region, that the bear power stopped further military operations."

"This war in East Africa has resulted in more than 100,000 deaths. Ethiopia has already won. There is no need to continue fighting."

"However, the powerful strength displayed by the Xiong Daguo Air Force in this Ogaden airlift operation surprised the Beiyuan member states, led by the United States."

"Because according to estimates by the intelligence agencies of various countries, the number of transport aircraft in service in the Xiong Daguo Air Force exceeds 1000."

"This means... if the great power Xiong uses more than 50% of its strategic airdrop force and launches a blitzkrieg in conjunction with its powerful ground steel torrent, the leaders of NATO member states in Europe will surrender in an instant..."

David stopped when he heard this, looked up at the traffic policeman directing traffic on the street, squinted his eyes and murmured.

"Last year, the U.S. government suddenly changed its easing strategy and wanted to unite... All countries that can unite will fight against the military suppression of the great power Xiong and restart the Cold War!"