Chapter 206: Old Rules but Gentle
The next step is to collect the list.
They collected a lot of names from the victims, of course this is only a part of the names that have been identified, and there are many more anonymous perpetrators that need further confirmation.
Bai Ling learned that this group of nobles often wore masks to hide their characteristics when participating in the "game". This increases the difficulty of identification.
In addition, the veterans said that before each of them came out, they were forced to sign a form acknowledging that they had mental problems.
In this way, as long as they dare to expose their identity cards on the Star Network or take them to court, the nobles will immediately retrieve the medical records and accuse them of having a mental illness.
——How can you believe what a madman says?
Once labeled in this way, any confession they make becomes invalid. Even if they reapply for mental health certification, the severe stress they suffered after being tortured will only add credibility to the certification.
If you insist on suing, the final result may be that you are diagnosed with hysteria, your mental illness becomes more serious, and you are arrested and detained in a mental hospital, and the freedom you have worked so hard to get will disappear again.
So the veterans almost kept silent about this matter.
What they were fighting against was not a single perpetrator, but an entire aristocratic bureaucratic system that protected each other.
History has proven that top-down reforms are useless when trying to destroy the system. Because no matter how powerful the emperor is or how strong his knowledge is, he is still one of the most important components of this system. He cannot kill himself; he can only be killed by others, and only then will it be complete.
Bai Ling quickly convened a meeting of senior generals and asked them to pass on their opinion - all those who had participated in the Colosseum list, regardless of gender or class, must be erased.
Some people were a little shocked: "Isn't this too much? What if some people just went there and didn't directly participate? For example, the executive lieutenants brought by the nobles."
Bai Ling said: "In the legal world, not helping someone in need is also a crime."
Forgiving your enemies is God’s thing to do. He is in league with the devil, and he is not responsible for it.
The next battle plan has been formulated. They will secretly raid Zirconium, a huge and populous mining planet, which is also the largest industrial center of the empire. After that, they fought their way to Nakajima Star.
Nakajima Star is the gateway to the center of the empire. As a midway jump point for interstellar shipping, its next stop is the capital star and its three subsidiary stars.
In other words, if we can win this battle successfully.
They are just one step away from success.
His ambitions were obvious, but the empire was not entirely passive. Although the military is corrupt, even the most chaotic stage can always yield one or two ruthless characters. Lieutenant General Longmeler, the commander in charge of the battle this time, is one of them.
"Longmeler, he is a famous 'defense master' in the military," Sava frowned, "His fighting style is the most tiring, mainly to wear the opponent to death, which can make you anxious to death."
Bai Ling had also suffered at the hands of this man in his previous life.
When it comes to defensive skills, Longmeler is indeed one of the best in the empire and can definitely be called a master.
At that time, Bai Ling planned to capture Zirconium Star in one month, but was blocked by Longmeler's tactics and the plan was delayed to three months. This made his logistics exhausted, and the supply could not keep up in the later stages, wasting his time and energy in vain.
This time, he must be fully prepared.
For any war, public support and military confidence are certainly important, but the key to victory or defeat must be strong logistical power and overwhelming industrial advantage.
This was reflected in the three world wars on ancient Earth.
The logistics and supply chain were handed over to Yu Chen without any hesitation.
In the past year, he has invested 18.7 billion in research and development expenses in the Gorgon Design Bureau. Now that the bureau has reported that they have achieved major research and development results, he has decided to inspect it in person to see whether the huge amount of research and development money has really been spent wisely.
"How is it?" Bai Ling asked him in a phone call before going to bed.
"I went around and caught a few people who were just sitting there doing nothing and got rid of a few people who were greedy for research funds."
Bai Ling lowered his voice and asked, "Kill him?"
"What else?" Yu Chen walked to the terrace. The air outside was chilly, making his pale face look even more tired, but he was in good spirits. He stopped, and the mechanical servant put on his long coat with his brows lowered. He smiled into the communication, "We can't let him out."
This is a military-industrial enterprise and has confidentiality regulations. Moreover, since these things were done right under his nose during the war, he would of course punish them severely according to the law on delaying the front line during the war.
In fact, corruption is common in large companies, and defrauding funds is even more common. Especially for state-owned enterprises that have been converted into private enterprises, such as Gorgon, many of the managers have legacy problems and always treat this as a stable job. Some form cliques, while others just live a life of idleness and wait for death.
In the past, Gorgon was funded by the state, spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The prices for some parts were outrageous, such as two hundred thousand for a screw that could withstand space pressure, but it was not considered too conspicuous.
But now it is different. The fighting on the front line is tense and a large amount of equipment needs to be replaced. Production efficiency must be improved and costs must be reduced appropriately. As a result, some problems that had been ignored before were completely exposed - high quotations, slow work, Commander Bai had received the money, the design department's drawings had been completed, but the production orders were still in the queue.
Yu Chen must be dealt with severely.
After all, the quality of every screw on the production line in the rear may correspond to the life of a soldier on the front line. Corruption may not seem like a big threat in peacetime, but in wartime it can be enough to cripple an army's logistics.
If you are greedy for money today, you may steal the blueprints and sell them tomorrow, and you may betray your country for money the day after tomorrow.
Once this trend spreads, it will destroy the entire industrial system.
Bai Ling thought about the soldiers who had been killed innocently by bombs because of poor quality weapons, and said coldly, "They deserve to be killed."
Yu Chen took ruthless action to catch the corrupt officials in order to reorganize the company.
The reason why Gorgon can burn so much money in a year is that the company actually has six research centers, corresponding to mecha aerospace, space starship, interstellar weapons, atmospheric thermal weapons, ground equipment, and agricultural and educational equipment R&D departments.
At its peak, its production plants were spread across almost every planet in the empire. However, now, its business department has shrunk by 60%. Even though it achieved a small growth last year thanks to military expenditure orders, it still cannot keep up with Bai Ling's subsequent needs.
After all, when a war breaks out, it won’t be about lighting a lighter and burning money, but pouring gasoline into a bank vault. With such a huge funding gap, Yu Chen wants to attract some private and overseas capital.
One of the effective ways is to reach corporate cooperation with civilian capital by transferring some of the more backward patents.
For example, the armored transport vehicle production line from 20 years ago was transferred to an ordinary car company. The launch of meteorological satellites is outsourced to scientific and technological institutions.
Gorgon is Gorgon after all. A lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Even if some patented technologies slip through its fingers, it will definitely be at the forefront of the civilian market.
Other medium-sized enterprises are eager to have Gorgon transfer technology. By paying a certain amount of money, you can directly install the production line and save a lot of initial research and development costs. Why not do it?
In this way, the Gorgon could subcontract out minor industries and earn profits. If Bai Ling needs a transport vehicle or something like that, he can also purchase it at a low price from downstream companies through cooperative procurement.
At the same time, Gorgon can also use advanced production and R&D personnel in the most critical areas - according to the battlefield situation, concentrate its efforts and develop appropriate weapons as quickly as possible.
Advanced technology and outstanding scientists are always in the hands of Gorgon.
This will become Bai Ling's strongest confidence on the front line.
However, Yu Chen’s work in the rear is not just to expand the military-industrial complex. He also had time to pay attention to "people's livelihood".
The Minister of Embryology and Fertility came to report: "Your Majesty, may I ask, are the specific implementation standards of your Homecoming Act still based on the old rules?"
On the way back, Yu Chen gave a brief reply: "Let's follow the old rules."
Minister: "As you command!"
Yu Chen flipped to Bai Ling’s chat history, saw the falcon avatar, and rubbed it with his thumb.
Afterwards, the minister received a new order:
"Same old routine, but with a gentler touch."
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[New regulations of the third human experiment country: the Homecoming Act]
[Regulations: In view of the inevitable and tragic enemy attack that is about to occur during the War of Restoration, the government must take measures to prioritize the evacuation of specific personnel. All residents evacuated from the front-line areas will be properly resettled and guaranteed food, accommodation, sanitation, medical care and educational support.
[The first batch of people who can be evacuated are as follows: female omega, male omega, female beta...]
When the subtitles hit this point, the people watching below started to curse, "Fuck, he just wants to grow a uterus, right?"
Turns out it wasn't.
Subtitles continue: […and the legal alpha guardian of the omega (registered for more than three months)]
Everyone was silent, and then a stone caused a thousand ripples, and the whole place exploded.
“Why?!!!”
"This is blatant discrimination! Why should only alphas who have supervised omegas be eligible to leave first?"
"What a weird bill. What kind of weird rule is this? In the Empire, you can only have a chance to escape if you appease the omega. Come and join us~ (阴阴怪气.jpg)"
"Hey, I have a registered omega, he's my junior, his parents are both dead, last time I helped him drive away the bad A who wanted to mark him. I didn't expect that I could go first for my bravery, I feel a little encouraged!"
"? What are you doing upstairs? Are you an alpha or not? You traitor!"
"Roll, roll, roll, roll, and you'll vomit."
"…What are you in such a hurry for? Is there a possibility that this is just the first batch, just like when ladies and children were given priority on the Titanic? Maybe the next batch will be you… um, alphas who refuse to comfort omegas?"
"Don't try to avoid the main point above. Our appeal is clearly about discrimination against alphas! We are all the same people, and after differentiation, everyone is equal."
"...No, have you forgotten that the old imperial law that Wild Star follows means that omegas are still [rare national protected resources]. So those alpha guardians are considered [resource protectors], just like the wild breeders at the giant panda wild base in the mountains. (Doghead) They usually give pheromones, small towels, and emotional value, and they have the priority to escape in war. Don't they deserve it?"
"So I deserve to be left in the second batch and die just because I didn't treat a bitch well? (rolling eyes)"
At this time, a sentence popped up in the scrolling comments and was liked by thousands of people:
"Isoparaiso, you know how to stir up conflicts among people."
This bill caused too much controversy among the male community and even reached Bai Ling.
In just one afternoon, twenty media outlets submitted applications, wanting to know his attitude towards the matter.
Bai Ling sent a message to the mermaid. His forehead twitched. "You really want the world to be in chaos. Shouldn't this be a time to call for unity? Why are you deliberately provoking conflict?"
It caused a lot of unrest in the community.
Yu Chen convinced him with a few words:
"In previous wars, all countries only paid attention to the number of casualties on the front lines, but ignored the large number of females who were forced due to lack of power supervision. This happened thousands of times a day, and countless males took advantage of the chaotic situation to commit atrocities, and then mixed in with the refugee group, pretending to be innocent and leaving. But after the war, you will find a lot of illegitimate children without fathers, and their mothers are full of sorrow, suffering and depression, unable to take care of themselves-"
"I don't want my precious bearers to carry an egg that was obtained under duress and spend their entire lives raising a little monster that looks just like his bastard father."
“It’s not conducive to the development of the country after the war.”
Damn, this guy actually seems to have a point.
The more Bai Ling thought about it, the more he felt that this was indeed something that those in higher positions should consider carefully.
"So, I will screen the good and bad males according to my rules and try to eliminate potential criminal genes as much as possible." Yu Chen said slowly.
"Moreover," Yu Chen emphasized, "alphas are a group that pursues profit extremely. If you don't personally use examples to tell them that in our country, only those who treat those who give birth well can have a good life, they will never learn their lesson."
He is the alpha, and he knows the characteristics of the population better than anyone else.
"As for the inferior species that refuse to change, we deprive them of the right to have offspring and let their genes full of derogatory and selfishness disappear. This is also a clean and effective way to eliminate them."
A utopian.
Bai Ling slowly reacted, and the words Yu Chen had said before emerged in his mind.
He actually wanted to carry out a species cleansing!
He is serious!
This lunatic is even crazier than me.
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