Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 156: Fixed body question

An order from the MI[-] headquarters was sent to Qin Xu.

Nowadays, most of the agents of MI[-] are operating in the Republic of Quillac, responsible for paving the way for Thordain's career, clearing obstacles to progress, and assassinating those who need to be assassinated.

At this moment, Qin Xu, who was of no use in building an intelligence network and was essentially just a soldier rather than an agent, became the most available senior agent.

"The information we collected about Sirius's current situation has been sent here."

While he was talking to Qi Zhengxi, his communicator suddenly rang again.

Qin Xu briefly browsed the content.

At present, all indicators on Sirius are normal, and the crime rate is slightly higher, but it is barely within the normal fluctuation range.

Population data alone can’t cover it up.

Every time a person dies, the hospital and crematorium will report it, and then 550C will cancel the resident's ID card.

Hundreds of billions of population management is the most critical reason why interstellar civilizations have to use artificial intelligence. Even in several major cuts to 550C's authority, the fundamentals have not been touched upon.

"What are you looking at?"

The embassy is an open intelligence agency. At this time, everyone in the embassy was being received by local officials to conduct inspections, records and studies in various cities in Quillak.

Chen Xiaomeng saw that Qin Xu suddenly walked to the corner and looked at his phone alone, so he couldn't help but come over.

Under normal circumstances, Qin Xu's spy missions cannot be seen by outsiders, but Qi Zhengxi didn't care, and Qin Xu naturally didn't care either.

"There is a problem on Sirius. The natural death rate of the population has increased abnormally, and all the people sent to investigate have disappeared."

Qin Xu said casually while browsing the information.

"Destroyed? Killed?"

"That's not the case. I just didn't want to come back after I went there, or I simply cut off contact with the headquarters."

"Isn't that dead?"

Chen Xiaomeng said doubtfully.

"That's the problem. I don't know whether some people are dead or not, but it is true that they are unwilling to come back after having a living past."

After listening to Qin Xu's statement, Chen Xiaomeng frowned, "Then this is indeed very wrong."

"Yes, so the Sixth Office intends to send me to investigate this matter."

"Can I go too?"

"It's not mentioned above, but if it's a latent investigation mission, it should be possible."

Qin Xu closed the files on his mobile phone, and together with Chen Xiaomeng, he caught up with the large force of the Mozi research ship that had gone far away.

"By the way, the companies you are introducing now are all Portman's companies, right? What about your own industry?"

Su Lixuan asked the civil servant responsible for entertaining them diplomats like a tour guide.

In bustling metropolises, you can often see huge logos of major companies.

There are bitten apples, black musical notes, blue birds, and sun-like ones. Anyone who has a little knowledge of the current top corporate groups in the Galaxy will know these companies.

None of them are Portman's businesses.

Wilder, the Quillac civil servant in charge of this diplomatic reception, also looked up at the large Portman companies surrounding them.

"Our own? It seems that there are none..."

Wilder recalled what happened before the Republic of Quillak became a liberal trend.

The Portman conglomerate is not on the same level as the Republic of Quillak in terms of economy, military, and technology.

Every country has the dream of being a superpower. Similarly, people also hope that their country can become strong.

At that time, Portman was the place that all the people of Quillac aspired to, and it was the utopia in their dreams.

Especially when the two countries established diplomatic ties, the official and civilian exchanges between the two sides became closer, and information exchanges became more frequent, this yearning and longing reached a peak.Portman's welfare system is far ahead of Quillak. A person hardly needs to work. Just receiving unemployment benefits is already better off than more than 60% of the people in his country.

Like 996, 007 and the like, I don't even mention it.

Working four days a week, five hours a day, and then being able to make a salary that far exceeds their salary.

After the Internet on both sides is connected, this gap becomes more obvious.

The people of Portman never seem to have to rush for life. They are either consuming or on the road of consuming all day long.

When he's not traveling, he's partying, playing various extreme sports, taking on death challenges, and enjoying life.

They are living, and they are alive.

A large number of news, newspapers, media and magazines, and short videos all talk about how good Portman is, how advanced their system is, and how high-quality their people are.

My life is so bad here, it must be a problem with the system!
Change, change fiercely.

First, open the market. The government cannot interfere in anything in the market. The market itself has the ability to adjust and can always operate at the highest efficiency.

This is the key to getting rich.

It is true that they have become rich, but it is not the people of Quillak who are rich, but the people of Portman.

If you move forward with a heavy burden, then there must be someone who will take care of you in the years to come.

Portman's high welfare is not fake, it is just achieved by exploiting other civilizations.

A market economy can indeed allow the economy to run efficiently, but it also allows winners to take all.

The local enterprises of the Quirac Republic, which had an open market and free competition, were instantly overwhelmed.

And the Portman Enterprise, which has made a lot of money, has no intention of distributing the profits to the people of Quillac.

Over time, Quellak's economy has improved, but the people's lives have not necessarily improved, and the gap between the rich and the poor has widened to a terrifying gap.

As society becomes more divided, the crime rate rises, social stability declines, and happiness drops even further.

Looking back, Mitchell realized that none of the enterprises on his side were gone, not a single private one was left, and the state-owned ones were also cancelled, which was equivalent to losing everything.

"No? The Matthias Consortium, and those other consortiums, aren't there a lot of them?"

Qin Xu asked in a low voice to Chen Xiaomeng next to him.

"If you think 50% foreign ownership can be considered your own company, then it does."

"So outrageous?"

"So Quillac is equivalent to working for Portman in vain. It seems that the GDP of the entire country is more than ten times higher than ours, but in fact, it is hard to say how much of it belongs to him."

Chen Xiaomeng also responded in a low voice.

But in fact, Mitchell knew that this situation was still the result of Portman deliberately trying to please Quillac.

After all, they, Quillac, were located where Field's and Portman's influences overlapped.

They were exploited too hard, and it was entirely possible that Quillac would turn back on the spot with Field's support.

And once the only dragon slayer to curb liberal expansion and oppression is gone, no one knows where Quillac will go at that time.

It may become like other economically colonized places, suck them dry and then sell all their citizens as slaves.

Mitchell clenched his fists tightly, feeling for the first time the critical nature of the country's situation.

In fact, these people are not the only ones who have seen this. Brad, one of the eleven consuls of the country, is also trying to make a last-ditch effort.

And for this breakthrough, Brad chose the human integration.

A weak country that once defeated the Bazadi Empire, which was far stronger than him at the time, by absolute advantage when everyone was not optimistic about it.

(End of this chapter)