Chapter 183: Half a Month

Ye Cang did not say anything more, just sitting there thinking quietly.

The old man, meanwhile, sat opposite him and began to handle other matters.

For a moment, there was not the slightest sound in the entire office; it was quiet as could be.

Ye Cang sat there thinking for a full ten minutes before arriving at a not-too-certain answer.

"I've thought of how to solve it, it's just... I'm not too sure about it." While saying this, Ye Cang's confidence was uncharacteristically lacking.

The old man stopped what he was doing and looked up.

"It doesn't matter, just say whatever comes to mind. It's just the two of us here, don't worry about being wrong. Answers aren't something that are easily obtained," the old man said.

The old man's words were like a calming pill, allowing Ye Cang to settle down.

Immediately, Ye Cang began: "Just as you said, those behind-the-scenes manipulators and various countries now all know that Huaxia is unprecedentedly powerful."

"No one is willing to be the first to strike, to be the one to stick their neck out, because the fate of such a person is not good."

"Therefore, I think if we want to solve this problem, we can feign weakness."

"Let other countries think that Huaxia's national strength was actually severely damaged after defeating the Eagle, and that they are just putting on a brave front, afraid of others seeing the flaws."

"This way, they will reveal their true colors and take the initiative to strike at Huaxia."

"I don't know if my line of thinking is correct?"

After listening to this speech from Ye Cang, the old man nodded.

"What you said is not bad; we should indeed use this method."

"However, feigning weakness is also a difficult thing. If it's too deliberate, others will see it's a trap at a glance."

"So the second problem is, you have to think about how Huaxia should feign weakness in just the right way, so they believe Huaxia is truly severely injured."

This time Ye Cang did not think, but instead scratched his hair.

"Can I not think about that?" Ye Cang said with some embarrassment.

"I'm really not very good at this."

However, as soon as Ye Cang finished speaking, the old man's palm landed mercilessly on his head.

"Oh, you brat!"

"How is it that your brain moves so fast when you're doing scientific research, but now that I'm asking you to think of a strategy, you're suddenly not good at it? Both of these require using your brain, what's the difference?"

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking; it's nothing more than having me here, so you feel relying on me is fine."

"But what if I die? You can't just ignore everything, right? Still just doing your research?"

Ye Cang opened his mouth.

He really wanted to retort.

Doing scientific research and thinking of strategies are two completely different things.

How can they be lumped together?

But in the end, Ye Cang did not say these words.

He just whispered an "oh."

And began to think about how to correctly feign weakness.

The old man was right.

It was time for him to learn about strategy; he couldn't just keep doing research and leading troops into battle, right?

If that were the case, wouldn't he become like Kaisha?

At this moment, Kaisha, lying alone on her bed, let out a huge sneeze.

Kaisha rubbed her little nose and said with slight confusion: "Eh? A cold?!"

"No, that's impossible! I survive on energy, this is just inexplicable!"

After speaking, Kaisha rolled over and continued to lie flat.

Meanwhile, Ye Cang had come up with a rough idea at this time.

After a moment of preparation, Ye Cang said: "I have a rough idea now, listen to this."

"According to my thinking, feigning weakness must be done inadvertently; otherwise, no matter how you look at it, it would be too deliberate."

The old man nodded.

"Mm, not bad, continue."

After receiving the old man's affirmation, Ye Cang continued: "Following this line of thought, we could start from... um... um..."

Speaking to this point, Ye Cang lost his train of thought and fell into deep contemplation again.

This time the old man did not give a hint, just watched quietly.

Another ten-plus minutes passed.

Only then did Ye Cang say: "We can start from the border."

"Although the Firmament isolates Huaxia from other countries, some countries are destined not to be well-behaved."

"White Elephant and Monkey are the representatives. I just checked the recent data, and Monkey has been wanting to cut something off from the Firmament lately."

"White Elephant, on the other hand, feels that this Firmament should belong to them."

"Since that's the case, let's shrink our forces and tell the soldiers guarding the border to minimize conflicts. If a conflict really arises, just back down first."

"If it's like this, I believe it won't be many days before those guys can no longer restrain themselves!"

Having said so much in one breath, Ye Cang felt a bit thirsty.

He picked up his tea and drank it in one gulp.

After he finished drinking the water, the old man finally spoke.

"You said you couldn't think of anything, look, didn't you think of it?"

"And you thought of it quite well, it just lacks a few details."

"However, it's good that you could think of it."

"I will help you refine the details, so you just need to wait patiently from here on out. Don't be impatient, you hear?"

"Alright, enough said, get lost!"

As he spoke, the old man waved his hand to signal that Ye Cang could leave.

Seeing this, Ye Cang immediately stood up and quickly left the office.

The old man then walked to the window, looked at Ye Cang's retreating figure, and shook his head with a smile.

"Stinky brat, still thinking of relying on me for everything?"

"And he doesn't even know how to respect the old and cherish the young!"

"He has truly forgotten the Chairman's words completely!"

After saying this, the old man returned behind his desk and sat down.

He then took the ideas Ye Cang had just mentioned, modified, adjusted, and supplemented them, and issued the orders directly.

Meanwhile, Ye Cang had returned to his home and started waiting patiently.

As it turned out, this wait...

lasted for a full half-month.

Such a long wait made Ye Cang cry out that he couldn't take it!

Fortunately, during these half a month, some news still trickled out from time to time, and all of this news was good news.

The most important of which was Huaxia's 5th Industrial Revolution.

After undergoing the Industrial Revolution for a month.

The Industrial Revolution across the entirety of Huaxia was largely complete; at this point, Huaxia had abandoned its previous methods of power generation and switched entirely to clean energy in the form of Cold Nuclear Fusion Reactors.

Furthermore, the lines and such had also changed from ordinary electrical wires to superconductor transmission.

This meant there was no loss in energy transmission; it is no exaggeration to say it reached one hundred percent.

Apart from this aspect, good news also kept coming in from other areas.

The biggest piece of good news was that Huaxia could build Stellar-class Warships!

The sea of stars would no longer be a dream, and for the Taotie in outer space, their good days were about to come to an end.

Of course, Ye Cang would not only focus on the good news.

He naturally also paid attention to news regarding the frontier.