Golden Gate is 40 AU from the star of the Exile System, far beyond the asteroid belt at the edge of the galaxy. Lewen Novels www..com. From the star map, it looks like a small island hanging alone on the sea of stars. This unique geographical location and the special political climate of the multi-party political competition in the Lighthouse Star allow the Golden Gate Star to be free from the edge of the Acropolis's power radiation range to the greatest extent, while fully enjoying the free, peaceful and open favorable environment of the Exile Galaxy. Therefore, Here a free port is formed where the secular world and the temple world meet.
Compared to the so-called lighthouse star of freedom and democracy, Kinmen is more like a city of freedom. It opens its mind to accept everyone, whether it is a frustrated person in the Acropolis or a ranger wandering the universe, whether it is an ambitious politician, an adventurer who finds happiness between two worlds, and even escaped slaves and criminals, all can be found here. Get a welcome here. Its planet orbit not only has regular large-scale spaceports and customs for spacecrafts to take off and land, but also surrounds the planet surface of Kinmen. There are also more than a thousand landing ports for private mechas and small airships to land freely, as long as they do not violate Anyone can land under the Planetary Environmental Protection Act and accept landing guidance.
David and Gu Hanhan landed at such a free landing port. After putting away the mecha and walking out of the long and narrow isolation area, the port was full of people, beating gongs and drums, and colorful flags were waving in the sky. It was a prosperous and lively scene. Huge banners hang from the buildings on both sides of the road, and there are guiding arrows for a certain reception area everywhere. There are many recruitment points with bright colors and eye-catching signs. Recruiting officers wearing various beautiful military uniforms stand directly on top of the airship with the national flag painted on it, holding a loudspeaker to lobby the crowd.
Gu Hanhan was amazed by the prosperous scene of fluttering flags of all nations in front of him. It felt like he had passed through the mists of time and arrived at a market that had disappeared in the long river of history for thousands of years. She held David's arm and looked around curiously as she walked.
"It's almost time for the General Assembly of All Nations!" she said, "It's like a market, there are so many recruiting offices."
"The most popular military recruitment center on Kinmen is this kind of recruiting office," David said with emotion as he looked at the scene around him. "When I first arrived at Kinmen, I was also frightened by this scene."
He casually pointed to the signs of various hotels on both sides of the street and told Gu Hanhan: "These are only public ones. The rest that are branded as hotels and receptions are actually recruiting offices with various national backgrounds. Probably due to geography Due to the convenient location, every country in the Galaxy, no matter how big or small, as long as they can afford it, will set up a recruitment office here. It is said that many small countries have no influence on the Lighthouse Star, but the recruitment points on the Golden Gate Star are in full swing."
Gu Hanhan was stunned for a moment before asking in confusion: "Don't you recruit soldiers in your own country and call them in Kinmen Star? Is it because you recruit people who are not ordinary soldiers but superpowers? Yes, that must be the case!" This place is so close to the Lighthouse Star and is an important transportation road. People with super powers come and go in groups. If you just pass by the Golden Gate Star, don't they just wait for work!"
David smiled and said: "That's not necessarily true. Real superpowers still have to be found on the Lighthouse planet, otherwise there would be no need to open the social season every autumn. Even though these recruitment offices on the Kinmen planet are still recruiting superpowers, It should only be done incidentally or as a second-best option for small countries that cannot afford to join the Lighthouse Star. It does not affect the overall situation. The main recruitment targets of these countries in Kinmen are actually refugees. Kinmen is a place protected by the Free Port Convention. Large numbers of refugees from across the Milky Way are pouring in here all the time. They are inexhaustible and are a population resource that is valued by the secular regimes of every country."
"Population resources?" Gu Hanhan was surprised. If she was not mistaken, she remembered that the most indispensable thing in the universe was people. The so-called three-legged people were hard to find, but two-legged people were everywhere. The population of the galaxy had clearly reached a terrifying number, and they were everywhere. clamor for population expansion.
"Yes, population." David nodded, "It's not that environmental experts say the Galaxy is overcrowded. It involves a thousand-year battle between the two camps. The inside story is not simple."
He mentioned this casually, and then stopped talking about it. He just said, "Even if there is overpopulation, the surplus will never be a useful population, especially the problem of lack of military resources, which has been a headache for many countries. For thousands of years, , galactic wars are frequent, and a country without strong military power is simply not enough to establish a country. However, since the 3543 Space Convention completely banned the sale and imprisonment of civilians in the occupied areas and non-combatants captured in the war as slaves, the full name of soldiers and the scorched earth strategy have been used throughout the world. Human society is no longer popular. In the minds of people who have not experienced the "Great Era", "defending the home and the country" is a distant and dusty historical vocabulary. Joining the army is the worst choice for young people in the Galaxy. Any worldly As long as the regime dares to implement compulsory military service, it will first be overthrown by the turbulent public opinion in the country. If it plans to use slave soldiers, it will fall faster. The open convention and the United Nations fleet wandering around the periphery of the planet can ensure that anyone who sets foot on the land of Golden Gate can Everyone is free, regardless of whether he was a fugitive or a slave. So countries set up strongholds on Kinmen one after another, absorbing them and strengthening themselves at a cost that is so small that it can be ignored. "
After saying this, Gu Hanhan understood. No wonder the “military” profession has topped the list of worst jobs for three hundred years in a row. Gu Hanhan was also a person who visited the red light district on Earth, and knew very well that prisoners of war were dragged into selling meat. Being a soldier means fighting, and as long as you fight, you will have prisoners of war, and if you become a prisoner of war, you will inevitably be sold into slavery. Therefore, being a soldier is risky, and patriotism requires caution. Being obedient and obedient is a free citizen, but carrying a gun carries a huge risk of becoming a slave. Anyone with a brain knows the pros and cons of this. Only the superpowers in the Galaxy can recruit enough troops within their own territory, but how many superpowers can there be in the entire Galaxy? Ten fingers can't be counted, plus ten toes are enough. The vast majority of the rest are small and medium-sized countries that live in various cracks and buffer zones. As everyone knows, the more small and medium-sized countries like this, the more wars they have. There have been months and months of weapons rolling in, wars have to be fought, soldiers have to be recruited, and implementing the military service system is a dead end. The people will rebel, and recruiting slave soldiers will die faster. Not only the slaves will rebel, but they will also offend the princes, nobles, the entire upper class of society, and even offend super powers. noble. Calling here and there, a country can't get many volunteers except the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant. To put together a decent army, we can only place our hope on the refugees. What they give is nothing more than nationality, banknotes, or barren land on a barren planet - these cost the country little to nothing, but they can harvest tens of thousands of cannon fodder, and for thousands of people in the Milky Way in their hometown For the desperate fugitives who cannot survive, Golden Gate, which does not accept any extradition treaty, is their last hope for crossing the vast universe.
"Understood!" Gu Hanhan pinched her fingers, "Into the Golden Gate, I watched this movie in junior high school. It was very popular at the time. From slave to king, the plot has a special theme."
She recalled the words of the young slave who escaped on the ship and the general "went to Jin to seek asylum", so she asked: "Since Jinmen is a completely free port and even slaves and fugitives are sheltered, then according to the principles of the two worlds, if it is a super-powered slave If you escape into Kinmen, you should also be protected by the open treaty, right? So these countries on Kinmen will take the opportunity to recruit them and provide them with asylum?"
David really doesn't know much about this. "Theoretically, it should be the same open treaty," he said. "I have never heard of anyone from the Acropolis escaping to Kinmen to seek asylum in a secular country, but there may be such a thing. Come back and ask Chiyo .”
He said it casually and his tone was casual. But there is apparently a practice on Kinmen of accepting and providing shelter to escaped slaves with super powers, and in a sense it is famous. Otherwise, the slave boy who once traveled with his father in the universe would not have fled without hesitation as soon as he approached the Golden Gate star, and David's guard generals would not have said that they were "seeking refuge." It's just that from David's position, these are not within his sight at all. How could David Duran, the patriarch of the family, know such a trivial matter as where the slave would escape?
These powerful countries on the Kinmen planet do have the power to provide shelter, but most of the powerful countries are already under the protection of a certain super-powerful clan, allowing them to take the huge risk of offending their masters to protect their super-powers. It is absolutely impossible for an escaped slave to do such a thing secretly. The only people who can do such a thing secretly are the little wild country. Grandma does not care, uncle does not love, has no backing, little support, poverty, illness and weakness are precarious, and no one is willing to take their toes. So, I have no choice but to keep improving. As for the super-powered slaves who escaped to the Golden Gate Star, no one with truly valuable high-level superpowers would dare to provide shelter or a place of refuge. Besides, the high-level slaves in the Acropolis would not run away at all - even if After running for a hundred and a half years, it would never be to Kinmen. What finally disappeared here was just some insignificant dust and gravel, not even the dregs of the small waterways of the Acropolis. What difference does it make between a small country and people with low abilities, whether they collude or not? As David said, it has nothing to do with the overall situation...
David and Gu Hanhan held hands and walked along the crowded road outside the port toward the city on the planet with a leisurely mentality of traveling. Although David believes that there will be no real recruitment of superpowers on Golden Gate, the scale of incidental and second-best efforts from all the countries in the galaxy is still staggering. Headhunters are clearly infested on the planet, and there are many people outside the port in just a few minutes. On the way to One Thousand Meters, they were targeted by at least a dozen waves of people at the same time. However, due to the terrifying energy level pressure on David, no one dared to get close and just stayed far away.
