In the empire, Liang Qiu Ziyu's miraculous experience in overturning the verdict caused a certain range of sensation.
People who didn't know the truth added fuel to his legend, exaggerating him into a counter-espionage hero, and elevated him to the height of invincibility.
Liang Qiu Ziyu wore the "high hat" imposed on him by the empire and became a well-known figure in society.
Considering the security risks posed by this incident, at the suggestion of his father-in-law, he spent more than half of his family's savings to purchase the latest commercial "guard robot" to be used as a personal guard for his wife and children during their daily travels.
Except for a few special privileges, this "guard robot" has similar overall performance and is sufficient for home use.
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As the commander-in-chief of the Third Fleet, Zishu Fuming has returned to the base and goes to work on time as usual every day, handling important matters inside and outside the fleet.
He has not returned for two years, and many major decision-making matters must wait for his return to adjudicate. Therefore, the accumulated problems are all difficult and difficult to solve.
However, with many years of management experience, important position and power, good personal connections, and currently having a strong backer like the Supreme Commander, under the premise of conducting official business, he gave a little green light and basically took care of everything. Seven or eighty-eight.
While Zishu Fuming was busy handling official duties and enjoying the warm moments of reunion with his family, the empire's huge machinery was quietly operating, making preparations for their return to the solar system.
In the office of the Imperial High Command, Wu Brand has been working on time these days, fully deploying the solar system development project, and issued dozens of instructions to complete the project within 2 months.
The deputies initially thought it was normal production of war-prepared materials. When subordinates reported the progress a few days later, they learned that the output exceeded the meeting schedule, and that a considerable part of the production plan had nothing to do with the war. They did not know what the supreme commander's intention was.
Therefore, I visited him one after another in the name of reporting work to find out the truth.
As the supreme power controller of the empire, within the scope of his responsibilities, Wu Brand has the right to make decisions on routine tasks without going through special meetings. He only needs to report to the Council of Elders for record, and the Council of Elders can implement them without exercising veto power.
Of course, he couldn't directly refuse to answer the deputy's questions, so he used excuses that he had made up in advance.
Under the direct command of the empire's supreme commander, Ulbrand, all the necessary supplies to be transported to the solar system are being worked on day and night.
In order to deceive others, external claims were made to increase strategic reserves, add new interstellar trade contracts, and expand the scale of extraterrestrial exploration.
Among them is the production of a simplified version of the "Earth Star Body Card". The quantity is huge. For fear of arousing suspicion from the outside world, the production is deliberately divided into wrong quantities and only the rough processing of materials is carried out to be transported to the destination for re-production and assembly. At the same time, the spies stationed on alien planets are secretly ordered The employees used disguised economic and trade companies to sign several rough processing contracts for raw materials with domestic and foreign trade departments, making it impossible to determine what kind of end products they were in a short period of time.
With the development of science and technology to this stage, most product production is highly automated and highly intelligent assembly line operations, and the efficiency is not generally high.
People's main work is devoted to R&D and innovation, and the focus of on-site personnel's responsibilities has also shifted to maintenance and inspections. Personnel-intensive enterprises have become an isolated phenomenon.
However, the liberation of the labor force and today's terrifying population have formed two extreme trends that are constantly running in opposite directions, leading to irreconcilable social conflicts.
The production efficiency of a single production line or enterprise organization is very amazing, but when diluted to a huge population base, the overall comprehensive efficiency is still low.
The fundamental reason for the sudden increase in the number of people is the popularization of life evolution agents, coupled with the initial uncontrolled reproduction and reproduction, which formed an extreme opposition to the rapid development of productivity.
The greatest effect of evolution is longevity, but its negative effects are numerous and form a vicious cycle. This is the fundamental reason why historical commentators have criticized evolutionary agents as "human killers."
With "100 million" as the astronomical unit of human life, the greatest demand is resources, and the greatest consumption is also resources.
However, through space expansion, the resource problem is the easiest bottleneck to solve. The vast starry sky is inexhaustible, and it is no problem to supply the negligible demand.
It’s just that in the entire universe, it is not easy to obtain resources. Dark matter accounts for more than 70%, which is a level that current technology has not yet mastered, and its application is only at the superficial stage.
The total amount of positive matter, which is more than 20%, is extremely huge, but it is too widely distributed, the area is too wide, and most of it is located in dangerous areas, so the cost and price of extraction are unbearable.
There are a lot of resources in and around this galaxy, which can be mined over a long period of time.
When human wisdom and desire combine and evolve, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, approaching and avoiding distance becomes the priority. Then competition evolves into contradictions, contradictions evolve into force, and war becomes inevitable.
The biggest problem in the evolution of life is the slow but steady growth of population. Enforcing birth control can be said to be the root cause.
The major empires implemented this policy 200 years ago, and initially achieved remarkable results. At least it stopped the terrifying growth trend and alleviated the food supply crisis.
However, for a family, over a long period of time, as the children start families and start businesses, the couple will gradually feel empty, bored, and have a superfluous life. They may even suffer from various types of depression and family syndrome, and the mutual infection spreads.
So there is no need to guess the outcome. Losing public office, losing jobs, and receiving huge penalties will not stop the trend of secretly conceived and illegitimate children.
With the law failing to punish the public, the empire turned blockades into gaps, and finally established the policy that couples should not have more than three children in their lifetime. It was also written into the constitution and criminal law, and the entire people supervised each other to ensure the compatibility of human nature and law.
Next is the problem of food. The genetic sequence of the evolvers is reorganized and optimized, the activity of life cells is strong, the body structure has undergone substantial changes, and the average daily energy intake of individuals is three times that before evolution.
The huge increase in the total volume at the beginning caused the food prices on the market to skyrocket, which once plunged the society into an existential crisis, and the state had to enforce control and plan supply.
In order to leave enough land for farming, houses are constantly being torn down and rebuilt, floors are constantly being raised to the sky, and the conditions for human habitation are constantly being restricted. Housing such as villas has long become the highest luxury, and it cannot be bought with money. symbol of privilege.
With the innovative development of planting methods and planting technology, the introduction of new products with ultra-multi-layer cultivation, ultra-gene grafting, and high-energy structures have been able to meet daily needs and ensure the bottom line of survival for all citizens. Even half of the people can survive without working. .
Then there are the two positively related issues of employment and public security. In the field of human pure material production, all employees account for less than one-tenth of the human population. Including other public officials, service personnel, military personnel, space expeditions, etc., the total number of employees accounts for approximately Three-fifths up or down.
After excluding the disabled, elderly, educated, and child-rearing population, the remaining massive unemployed or relief population has nothing to do. The hidden social dangers caused by some criminal elements are countless, and they have become the villains cultivated by other countries, planted as traitors, and secretly engaged in mischief. hotbed, posing huge challenges to the stability of the empire.
If the empire wants to maintain political stability, it can only regulate the world with strict laws. Now the threshold for death penalty has been lowered again and again, and extremely long sentences have been extended again and again. In the end, it has directly led to overcrowding in prisons, and frequent incidents of prison escapes or atrocities.
Wu Brand, the supreme commander of the Higgin Empire, was an iron-fisted leader who was elected for three consecutive terms. After being elected 28 years ago, one of his outstanding achievements was to rectify criminal chaos.
With the support of the Council of Elders, he promulgated the so-called "Special War Penalty Amnesty Order."
The main content is focused on short-term special training for criminals with sentences of more than 50 years. The execution of death row criminals is used to hone their blood. According to wartime requirements, they are forcibly sent to participate in the war in areas with fierce border conflicts. Under the high-pressure vigilance of regular troops, they fight against the enemy and receive exemptions or reductions based on merit. Sentence.
This move was the first of its kind, killing three birds with one stone: reducing prison pressure, reducing troop attrition, and dramatically increasing the cost of crime.
With this policy alone, crime cases have been significantly reduced, social order has been significantly restored, and Wubrand has unparalleled prestige.
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While waiting for the supplies to be shipped, Zishu Fuming enjoyed family happiness with his family and spent a few days in a comfortable mood.
However, in his special shuttle saucer, due to the need for confidentiality, the direct staff who returned with him are still under "house arrest" in disguise in the saucer, and have not been able to reunite with his immediate family members who have been waiting for more than 10 days. This makes He felt guilty.
Regarding this issue, he mentioned it in a secret conversation with the commander-in-chief to discuss how to deal with it.
If the commander-in-chief ordered the news to be blocked directly, and no outsiders were allowed to enter or leave the flying saucer without authorization, he might as well just step aside and use the commander-in-chief's order as a shield, and explain it to his followers and family members, so as to gain peace of mind.
Wu Brand was such a shrewd person, he had already seen his subordinate's wishful thinking, and simply gave a reply of "it's up to you". The only condition is that the secret cannot be leaked, otherwise you will be responsible for it.
This is where Zi Shu Fu Ming is most troubled. If he can keep his heart closed, of course he will be safe and there is no need to worry about this or that;
If the meeting is allowed, if the news leaks out, affects the next plan, and causes serious damage to the interests of the empire, he will be in trouble.
Although his followers had expressed in advance that they were willing to obey the confidential instructions and stay in the saucer until they returned to the solar system, he could read the expectations in his heart from the longing eyes of his followers and family members.
So, these days, he has been thinking about ways to get the best of both worlds.
On the 15th day after returning to the empire, a several-modified protection plan for meeting arrangements was finally finalized.
Zishu Fuming sat behind his desk and immediately issued an order, instructing the base's logistics director to personally preside over the implementation to ensure that the two-hour daily meeting was under full monitoring and precaution.
On the 17th day, the relatives who had been waiting for a long time in the base hotel finally reunited with the expedition soldiers whom they had not seen for 2 years in a specially prepared encrypted conference room in the base.
