After seeing those people who were forcibly taken away from the residential area by the metal liquid, but not sent to the location where the left path was currently being dealt with.

People from the government and the military immediately came over to inquire about the situation.

After all, it was obvious that Chen Ming was planning to completely destroy the residential area, rather than bypassing it and building a new industrial area outside it.

If these people are displaced, it will definitely not be good news for the government.

It is not good news for the army that Chen Ming, a psychic, forcibly does this kind of thing on ordinary people.

However, Chen Ming obviously had a reason for doing this.

He would collect all the excess materials obtained from the destroyed settlements and use them in the new settlements he would build for those who would continue to remain on the planet after the colony was expanded.

Of course, the details of each person and everything in their home were also preserved.

Anyway, he now has Brilliance and a few other idle Alpha Cores acting as external brains, so it is easy to write down and package what everyone has at home with liquid metal.

There may be some fragile items that are difficult to carry away, or they may be damaged during the transportation of metal liquids.

But Chen Ming can give partial compensation for these things later. Anyway, the government should not mind paying the bill for him.

When the new residential area is built, those residents who suddenly lost their original houses will be stuffed into the new big houses by Chen Ming.

Anyway, the abandoned residential area is so big, there are plenty of materials and space. He doesn't mind giving more space to the people working here. If each person is given a three-bedroom and one-living-room apartment, Chen Ming will have a lot of construction materials left over.

Chen Ming didn't believe that anyone would be unhappy about exchanging the original houses that were more than 20 years old for new and larger residences, which was not a loss in any way.

Forehead……

When Chen Ming thought of this, he suddenly hesitated, because this was really possible.

Some people may complain about his forced relocation because they do not want to leave their old homes.

But some people may be greedy, and they still know the principle that human nature is never satisfied and will try to swallow an elephant.

Don’t worry about Chen Ming mentioned above. At most he will be scolded in private. It won’t hurt anything to be scolded.

He doesn't have enough energy to deal with this matter individually for each person and each family. What he can do is to provide everyone with the same standard environmental conditions.

Chen Ming had learned about the original living environment of the colonial residential areas, and the living environment he provided was definitely better than the original one.

After being scolded for a while, the matter will naturally pass.

But as for the latter, if someone really wants to be shameless, he doesn't mind using some privileges to kick that person out.

Anyway, the government is worried that a large outflow of population will cause damage to the stability of neighboring colonies.

The problems of one, two or a dozen people cannot cause any waves in the whole social environment.

He can do that, but it's usually not necessary.

After confirming this idea

And after explaining this idea clearly to the person who came to inquire about the situation.

Chen Ming continued to use his psychic power on the entire colony without any scruples.

He only intends to take care of the remaining population in the colonies, and has no intention of opening up the colonies to the outside world in the future...

etc.

Chen Ming suddenly realized another problem, so he picked up the terminal and called Bai Quan, asking: "Does the colony have any other requirements?"

Bai Quan was somewhat puzzled by Chen Ming's question and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Does my colony need to be open to the outside world and accept foreign population in the future?"

"need."

“Really?”

This affirmative answer made Chen Ming feel a little uncomfortable for a moment.

"This is a basic obligation that the colony needs to fulfill. You can check the official website for this information."

"In short, you cannot prohibit anyone from entering your colony, and you need to provide equal treatment to all the imperial citizens who come, such as job opportunities and living quarters."

"Of course, you don't have to provide the newcomers with what you have to provide to the original residents for free."

"Anyway, the entire colony belongs to you. You can provide these things to outsiders at a reasonable price."

"This is also one of the sources of income for the colony. You don't have to forcefully refuse it."

Bai Quan explained to Chen Ming and suggested: "If you really don't want anyone, then you can set very strict screening standards for entering the colony and screen out the people you don't need."

"The owners of the colonies can still set their own requirements in this regard, so that not all bad people can come and go in the colonies at will."

"It's just that most colonies only conduct simple identity checks, so there are so many left paths and the like. There's no need for that in your case."

"But my suggestion is not to set the review criteria too high. Just keep it at a level that can screen out ordinary people but keep the good ones."

"Don't you have a super laboratory? You can build a branch in this colony and use this laboratory as an excuse to raise the standards."

"In this way, if someone really can pass the review, you can hire him. If such a person is willing to work for you on his own initiative, you don't have to refuse, right?"

"Other ordinary people can't pass the review and have nothing to say."

Chen Ming was still a little dissatisfied with Bai Quan's statement, and asked: "Can't you just raise the standard? Just say that my place is full and we are only lacking high-end management talents."

"no."

Bai Quan decisively gave Chen Ming a negative answer: "Even if you are a psychic, you should at least give people a reasonable reason."

"Many people know that the Afterglow Core is used in the Empire, but it does not exist in the open. So after your industrial colony is rebuilt, if there are only a few hundred thousand people, it is impossible to say that it is saturated."

"There has to be an excuse. Once you have an excuse, the rest will be easy to handle."

"Colonies within the empire must abide by the empire's rules. Building a branch is just for show and everyone will be happy."

"And if you think about it this way, didn't you just go to that scientific research colony before? How do the conditions there compare to your current colony?"

Chen Ming didn't even need to recall the past to compare and directly said: "It's not from the same era."

"You know this, right? Let me put it a little more bluntly. Where will capable researchers go?"

Bai Quan paused after he finished speaking to let Chen Ming understand what he meant.

"So as long as you set the standard, you don't have to worry about someone being full and overeating."

Baiquan's voice suddenly lowered as he spoke: "As for what you said before, you wanted to completely relocate the residents of the heavy industrial colony."

"Originally this is not possible, but you are a psychic. As long as you can handle this matter quickly and make it a done deal without giving others a chance to stop it, these things will be fine."

"Anyway, as long as there are no large-scale social incidents later, no one will dare or will investigate your actions."

"I can also give you a suggestion, which is to remember to demolish all the places where people live in the heavy industrial colonies after relocating them."

"Anyway, you can rely on the Afterglow Core to get things done, so it doesn't matter whether there are people or not."

"As long as you don't have this kind of place for ordinary people to live, then you don't have the ability to provide them with residential areas, and there is no need to accept foreign populations."

"This is because your colony is affected by objective conditions, not because you are actively preventing people from coming."

"And you decide the direction of development of your own colony. As long as the general type remains unchanged, a heavy industrial colony is still a heavy industrial colony, and you can do whatever you want."

“Once the residential area is demolished and you don’t rebuild, no one can force you to build it again.”

"It's like taking advantage of a legal loophole."

"But remember, the people in the heavy industrial colonies must be properly arranged for a destination. No matter whether you arrange for them to go to the light industrial colonies or contact someone to send them away, you must make sure they are properly settled."

"Once these people cause large-scale problems, all the above will become nonsense, and your colonial ownership may be confiscated for breaking the law."

After Bai Quan finished speaking, Chen Ming thought carefully for a moment and responded, "I understand. Just arrange the people and I'll take care of the rest. I'll be relieved. Thank you."

Chen Ming ended the communication and continued with the task at hand.

At this time, He Gu, who was sitting on the same shuttleboat with Bai Quan, was watching all this happening from afar, and using the terminal in his hand to silently calculate the amount of Chen Ming's mental power.

Just seeing the surging spiritual energy fluctuations on Chen Ming and the metallic liquid sweeping across the entire colony.

He Gu had already come to an exaggerated conclusion, that is, the amount of mental power Chen Ming possessed was much greater than what was shown in the simulation and than he had previously estimated.

Either his talent is even more exaggerated, or he has more good things on hand for psychics to practice their psychic powers.

He Gu calculated silently, and the result was both.

At this moment, a destroyer-class cargo ship suddenly appeared in the sky and was slowly descending, landing directly next to Chen Ming.

This spaceship was also the one that Chen Ming had asked Bai Quan to report before. The cargo on board was some gamma and beta level afterglow cores that Chen Ming was unable to transfer directly over long distances using psychic energy.

These cores will soon be installed by Chen Ming into the industrial zone, responsible for managing the operation of industrial equipment in the industrial zone, controlling the overall operation of the colony, and managing the people of the entire colony.

When doing these types of work, afterglow is much more useful than people.

People also have to consider whether they have selfish motives and whether they will be involved with Zuo Jing in the future.

But Yu Hui is different. They all have close ties with Chen Ming and will never betray him before Chen Ming falls.

Yu Hui will definitely spare no effort to help him manage everything in the colony, including Zuo Jing of course.

After the entire residential area has been plowed into flat land, industrial buildings and industrial facilities are gradually being built on the site of the original residential area.

The product of the combination of human technology and industrial power, which would have taken months or even years to build, appeared out of thin air in the colony in just a few hours under the power of Chen Ming alone.

This is the psychic.

These gradually emerging industrial buildings expanded from the original buildings and after a period of time successfully reached the scale that Chen Ming had achieved in the simulation.

However, Chen Ming did not stop. Instead, he continued to use the large amount of materials stored in the temporary base to fill part of the gap according to his own needs, and continued to expand the colony by about 10% more area.

The total area occupied by the expanded industrial zone has reached three times its previous size.

However, compared to the area of ​​the basic industrial zone, the additional extended part only occupies a little more than half of the original residential area.

Things are not over yet, after all, Chen Ming had just demolished the residential area.

The new residential area is still in a circular shape surrounding the industrial area, just like the previous one.

According to the year-round wind direction determined by the overall climate, the downwind area of ​​the industrial zone was separated. No residential area was built, but a large amount of space was left, and a broad road was built from the Earth's Core Furnace Power Tower directly to the outside of the colony.

It doesn't matter whether it is used directly for transportation or for the transportation of materials.

Moreover, it seems that similar issues had been considered in the design of this colony before.

The downwind direction happens to be the location of the abandoned space elevator where Chen Ming's Stardust-class ship is docked. This will be very convenient for Chen Ming to carry out other subsequent modifications, and it will also be convenient for Chen Ming to repair all valuable things in the entire colony.

In the simulation, Chen Ming only carried out colony maintenance and expansion, and the real gambling agreement only required Chen Ming to do these two things.

The rest is extra work he has to do on his own.

New residential areas soon began to be constructed.

The metal liquid gathered tons of materials for Chen Ming to touch. Then Chen Ming could directly use the materials to dismantle the discarded construction materials and send them to the warehouse. These materials could naturally be applied to places where they were actually needed.

One benefit of doing this is that all residential areas are built using his psychic powers and have unique mechanical structures.

The entire colony is truly his eyes and ears, allowing him to ensure that no problems in the entire colony escape monitoring.

Of course, all of this was left to Yu Hui to handle, as Chen Ming didn't have the time to deal with these things.

Since the population of the colony was too small compared to the area of ​​the colony, Chen Ming did not use the standards of apartment buildings, but instead used the standards of bungalows to build the new residential area.

Although he was not proficient in architectural planning, he only knew a little about it in the previous simulation because of Hong Guanghong.

But it is still no problem to design a living area that can sustain life.

In addition to basic residential buildings for people to live in, other basic livelihood buildings will definitely be arranged.

Just count the number of independent and residential buildings in the original residential area, and include special buildings such as shops, clinics, and water treatment plants that provide clean water.

These were originally commissioned by Lou Wei's faction to the local government to help operate and manage.

After all, it is a small colony, and it is basically unable to be self-sufficient in materials. It definitely needs external support and subsidies. Without these things, the colony would have collapsed long ago.

Now Chen Ming has to be responsible for these things, and he has handed these tasks over to Yu Hui, letting them control the robots to manage these places that are important to people's livelihood. In this way, there shouldn't be any major problems later.

After the general construction of the residential area, Chen Ming asked the ordinary people who were carried by the metal liquid to wait outside the colony to retrieve their belongings. Everyone got their own things and went to where they should go.

That is, the new house that Huihuang helped to allocate to everyone.

It would take some time for them to get familiar with the environment and understand what was happening, and Chen Ming estimated that there would be a lot of scolding.

But it’s not a big problem. Huihuang has helped provide corresponding notifications to everyone and given them a special channel for complaints.

And when they see their brand new home, all the new furniture that has been purchased, and a better environment.

Chen Ming believes that not many people will come to complain through the complaint channel.

If someone complains, let Yu Hui handle it. If it’s a reasonable request, he can agree to it. If it’s unreasonable, just kick the person out.

Chen Ming also transferred this complaint channel to the government, and they will also help take care of it.

As for those prisoners who were originally sent here, Chen Ming planned to take them out and send them back to the prison from which they were sent. He did not welcome such people here.

That's how it should be.

But the government department brought in a few more people when they were dealing with the left-wing elements with Chen Ming.

They were prison managers who had previously signed an agreement with the Lou Wei faction on cooperative management of prisoners.

But when they were meeting with Chen Ming, they gave too much.

Chen Ming estimated that the money they were willing to pay to renew the contract after replacing the owner of the colony should be the penalty given to them by the Lou Wei faction.

After all, providing labor reform facilities for prisons is the main source of revenue for these two colonies, and Lou Wei and his colleagues took the initiative to put the colonies as a bet. If the colonies fall into Chen Ming's hands, some businesses will definitely not be able to continue, and the losses caused will definitely need to be compensated to those who have a cooperative relationship with them.

But the prison did not want to give up. One can imagine how troublesome it would be to bring a large number of prisoners back and arrange places for them in a short period of time.

In that case, putting this option together with negotiating new conditions with Chen Ming, they would definitely try the latter.

Although the whole thing has not been completely over, after all, Chen Ming has not yet started to repair and expand the second heavy industrial colony.

But anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chen Ming did have such ability, so in the end they successfully reached a result that satisfied both parties, and Chen Ming signed an agreement on behalf of Lou Wei's faction.

Anyway, the prisons just ask that the prisoners continue to be locked up and provided with jobs and minimum wages.

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry too much.

Leave all matters to the Yuhui core, and deploy some robot guards, so there will be no problem in watching over these prisoners.

And it just so happened that the government needed to station government departments and security departments in the colonies.

It doesn't have to be a lot, just that they need to do it.

Since there is such a public sector that needs to be built, prisons are naturally at the top of the list.

If an agreement is reached with prisons in other places, the several industrial facilities that were originally used for criminals can continue to be used as prisons by the colony.

At this point, the outer residential areas of the colony were also completely completed.

However, now, there are still a large number of spacecraft taking off and landing near the Stardust level.

They are all government and military spacecraft, constantly transporting left-wing elements and investigating and interrogating them.

Any subsequent news will be passed on as soon as possible.

The person who found clear evidence related to Zuo Jing was asked to cooperate with Chen Ming in the arrest.

Those who have no evidence but are just suspicions will be marked, so that Chen Ming can let Yu Hui monitor them later.

And those who are clearly not problematic can stay safely in Chen Ming’s colony for the rest of their lives.

Some of the jobs in the plastic products industry that Chen Ming had deliberately reserved were for them.

Anyway, the work arrangements were left to Yu Hui, so Chen Ming didn't have to worry about it at all.

Working with more than 100,000 people is a bit difficult for Chen Ming, but for Yu Hui Core, it is definitely no problem.

As the last gamma-class afterglow core was installed in an area of ​​the residential area.

All the afterglow cores have been installed in place. After the tasks have been assigned, connected to their respective systems, and tested and run without error, the entire colony has been completely controlled by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming also ended the use of spiritual energy. The metal liquid gradually faded away, and all the excess materials were piled into the original warehouse.

It might be useful in the future.

In the industrial area far away, industrial facilities have begun to warm up and operate.

Just wait for the gambling agreement to end and the ownership of the colony to be officially transferred, and the people who help to contact Baiquan will drive the spacecraft that is already waiting for material transportation outside the galaxy to the planet, and the colony can be officially put into operation.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was standing on the edge of the colony, once again created locust armor.

He flew into the air alone, looking at the colony that had regained vitality in his hands, and felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction and accomplishment in his heart.

Although a purely industrial colony is different from his ideal, a comprehensive colony that develops the entire planet.

But at least this is a colony he built with his own hands, which always gives people an indescribable feeling.

This is the result of his hard work.

Chen Ming landed on the ground again.

They re-boarded the shuttle that Baiquan and his companions were riding, which was keeping a distance from the newly built colony.

He said to Bai Quan and Major General Song who had been waiting on the shuttle for a while, "The work here is finished. Wait for me to recover my mental strength and then we will go to the next place."

Major General Song, who had almost recovered from the previous emergency, immediately greeted him with a smile and said, "All is up to you."

Although the faces of the others did not look very good either, they were at least much better than before.

It was obvious that Bai Quan did something when Chen Ming left.

Only Lou Wei was sitting alone in the corner of the shuttle, his face full of dejection.

(End of this chapter)