"We usually say that life is priceless, but the 'price' here is value, and value and price are not the same. According to the general definition of economics, price is the amount of money required for the unit quantity of goods when they are exchanged with money, that is, the price is unit value, that is, the unit price." Cang Hao shrugged helplessly: "The so-called priceless life means that there is no value, because people are not commodities after all, but in each person, there can be prices. Unfortunately, this is a fact."

Jiang Zhongbo smiled and said, "So what is your price?"

"If the Blood Lion mercenary loses me, as a military contractor, that is, all the resources I bring, then I will suffer a billion in economic losses, and then my price will be one billion." Cang Hao replied word by word: "Everyone has a price, of course the difference is very large. The value may be abstract, while the price is concrete. In real life, we can see many ways to price life, such as the amount of compensation for work-related accidents, and the amount of insurance compensation. Any country has an important basis when formulating public policies, which is the statistical price of life. Of course, the statistical price here cannot be based on people like me, but based on most situations. Including any project, costs and benefits need to be calculated. This project will be implemented only if the benefits exceed the costs."

Jiang Zhongbo agreed very much: "This is indeed the reason."

"For example, there is a very dangerous bridge that may take away a person's life every year, and the management of the bridge will have to pay one million for this. It may take one million to transform the bridge to ensure that no one's life will be taken away. I believe everyone thinks that the money should be paid. So the question is, what if the cost of transformation is 10 million? Or 50 million? ... I also believe that as the cost continues to increase, fewer and fewer people are willing to pay." After pausing, Cang Hao continued: "About life

There is one simplest way to calculate the price statistics, which is to save a life, the price limit that public finance can pay. In Western European countries, the price is roughly more than 2 million euros. For example, if a certain type of drug is included in medical insurance, the public finance will pay an additional 20 billion yuan a year and can save 1,000 lives, then the life statistics price of each person is 20 million. Whether the public finance is willing to pay 20 million yuan for each person depends on whether the decision makers think the cost and benefits of this policy are cost-effective enough."

"So, many countries choose to restart quickly, not because of emotional impulse, but a rational choice. In fact, there are accurate mathematical calculations behind this. When will work and production resume, how many casualties will be caused and what kind of losses will be caused. If society continues to shut down, what kind of losses will be caused? Many mathematical models have been calculated and comprehensively measured costs and benefits." Jiang Zhongbo agreed with Cang Hao's judgment: "In other words, if work is not resumed, the losses caused by economic collapse will be greater, and more people may die as a result."

Cang Hao understood what Jiang Zhongbo meant: "Do you want to say that you had already conducted sufficient cost and profit accounting before you decided to engage in this war?"

"Why did I emphasize class differentiation and solidification from the beginning?" Jiang Zhongboli replied as a matter of course: "The casualties brought by this war are completely acceptable to us. Let me explain further. Those Aden souls who appear directly on the battlefield, you can understand that they are completely different from me. Their casualties are not important to our ruling class. If we can exchange their casualties for our living space on Earth, the benefits of this war will be far higher than the cost for us."

Cang Hao didn't say anything when he heard this because he felt Jiang Zhongbo's determination. It was obvious that the Soul of Aden really didn't care about the deaths and injuries of the same kind.

"After I said this, you should understand that we are fully prepared to make sacrifices." Jiang Zhongbo laughed strangely: "So are you primates prepared like this?"

"Frankly - I don't know, because I can only represent myself, and I don't know what others think."

"If this war continues, even if you win in the end, you will have to pay a heavy price." Jiang Zhongbo said word by word: "I just want Marrakesh. It is still very cost-effective for you to trade a piece of land for peace."

Cang Hao once again emphasized: "This is our human land after all."

"So what?" Jiang Zhongbo said sarcastically: "When Columbus first discovered the American continent, there were no whites there, only Indians. In the next few hundred years, whites established a lot of countries on the American continent, and although there were not many Indians. Aren't you primates the same kind of treatment for your own kind? If you think Marrakesh can only belong to humans, then whites should leave the American continent. Oh, by the way, you Chinese should return to the Yangtze River and Yellow River Basin, and the entire international geographical area will undergo earth-shaking changes."

"You are quibbling. What you mentioned is an internal dispute between us primates, and we and you are wars of different species, or even wars of different spaces." After a pause, Cang Hao added: "Also, it's useless to tell me these things, because I can only decide the affairs of the mercenaries of the Blood Lion. Whether humans and you are fighting or harmony should not be decided by me."

"What will you do?"

"I will report to the United Nations." Cang Hao replied: "I will put you under house arrest here before the United Nations makes a decision."

Jiang Zhongbo seemed to be mentally prepared: "No problem."

"We will not attack Marrakech for the time being. As for those two prisoners..." Cang Hao ordered his men: "Just let me get ashes!"

Since Jiang Zhongbo, the captive, for Cang Hao, the other two captives are meaningless, so it is better to execute them directly.

If you continue to be under house arrest at the forward base, it is difficult to say whether these prisoners will cause any trouble. If you can conduct interpersonal transfers, it will be troublesome.

Jiang Zhongbo didn't care about the lives and death of the other two prisoners: "I hope you primates can make a decision as soon as possible, because every day delayed, the situation will be even more unfavorable to you." Jiang Zhongbo said this and smiled strangely: "What do you think the skull-breaker is doing in Marrakesh?!"

Cang Hao could of course guess: "Prepare for a larger war."

"That's right." Jiang Zhongbo nodded slowly: "If you can't reach a cooperation with me, maybe this planet will change hands in the near future."

Cang Hao ordered his subordinates to put Jiang Zhongbo under house arrest, and then immediately contacted Meng Yanglong and told him about the story: "Our planet is already highly unstable internally and is now facing external threats, and the situation is beyond the scope of my ability to solve it, so you can only submit it to the United Nations, and the whole world will sit down and find a way together."

"I really didn't expect the situation to turn out like this..." Meng Yanglong took a deep breath: "From Jiang Zhongbo's statement, their level of civilization is higher than that of us. If this war continues, we will indeed suffer huge casualties. Because this is completely different from the early blockade of the Aden Star Gate, and we do not have an advantage..."

"But if Marrakech is given to them, how can we ensure that they will not make any more demands?"

"you mean……"

"When we discuss territorial disputes, we always emphasize that we will not give up in a single inch of land, and this principle also applies to the present." Cang Hao proposed firmly: "Today, a Marrakesh may be cedeed more land tomorrow!"

"My thoughts are the same as you, but this matter is not something you can decide..." Meng Yanglong said in a deep tone: "I can already think about how the international community will react. The great country will hurry to prepare for war, and ordinary countries will ask for agreement to cede Marrakesh and change peace in the region. The parties involved in Marrakesh firmly oppose the sacrifice of their own territory, but their voices will be drowned, and no one cares about their own ideas."

"When it comes to preparing for the war..." Cang Hao frowned slightly: "Now we should really prepare for the war!"

After Cang Hao put down Meng Yanglong's call, he received a report from Zhuo Jinfeng, and the enclave was once again attacked by federal airstrikes.

The Federation launched more than a dozen cruise **, all from strategic bombers, without attacks from sea.

The intensity of this attack was relatively low and the losses caused were not large. Most cruise ** were successfully intercepted.

What is interesting is that the Federation did not use nuclear submarines. Obviously, there must be federal nuclear submarines hidden in the coastal areas of Siberia.

Currently, Blood Lion II has arrived in the Western Pacific, but in the vast sea, it is not easy to find two submarines.

Usually, when a submarine launches an attack, it will expose its position, so it can lock in the corresponding area for search.

Cang Hao originally hoped that the Federation would continue to attack the enclave with nuclear submarines, and then the Blood Lion 2 could be found.

However, I don’t know if the federal side has noticed something, but this time it didn’t use a nuclear submarine.

In this way, the federal nuclear submarines are like ghosts. If they continue to cruise in the Western Pacific and launch a sudden attack, they may cause even more serious losses.

From a military perspective, any threat that has been clear is not scary. The most terrifying thing is this unclear threat because it makes you unable to deal with it.

However, what Cang Hao is most concerned about now is not the enclave, but Marrakesh.

Cang Hao called Pang Jindong and asked bluntly: "Now start recruiting troops in full and expanding the reserves of weapons and various materials. We may face a very long and difficult war."

Pang Jindong asked meaningfully: "Are you sure you don't compromise?"
Chapter completed!