Star Tycoon

Chapter 231 Goal
That day, Tian Ersan did his daily workout and then sat down to begin his routine check-up.

The system provided Tian Ersan with tremendous assistance, enabling him to rapidly grow stronger.

However, not relying on the system is not something Tian Ersan has been doing since he came into this world.

Having a system is a good thing, and Tian Ersan doesn't reject it. He just wants to push forward with the technological path he remembers outside of the system.

Utilize the artificial intelligence provided by the system to advance the world's artificial intelligence technology.

It's like having a car and then making a human-powered four-wheeled vehicle based on that design.

The current technological gap may be even greater than this...

The transition from rickshaws and four-wheeled vehicles to automobiles is less than a century old, but the gap between current artificial intelligence systems and self-aware, intelligent systems like those of a "wooden man" that can be readily transferred to other electronic products is estimated to be several hundred years.

We've been optimistic for centuries. Some technologies look simple, but they're actually quite difficult.

Developing a technological backup plan is Tian Ersan's habit and also a path that aligns with the current progress of civilization in the surrounding area.

[Fu Weihou founded Fu Weihou Film and Entertainment Company and collaborated with Holly from the United States to produce "Top Gun"]

[The project launched after the "Fu Wei" project is "Frozen". The company has also acquired the East Asian stage animation and merchandise rights for "The Lion King". A 10 billion RMB investment is planned between the Financial City and Beijing to build a theme park.]

[A nationwide beauty pageant is being held to find beautiful actresses to star in works such as "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils," "The Return of the Condor Heroes," "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," and "The Deer and the Cauldron."]

……

"Why is it always this guy's news?"

Tian Ersan frowned. He had never lacked money over the years, and he had always felt a sense of shame, preferring to be an internet celebrity and do live streaming rather than engage in these cultural projects.

What appears to be just a roadside stall is actually Tian Ersan's pursuit. Tian Ersan can dedicate his time to system development every day, or he can do some technical development himself.

The big and small things outside have nothing to do with Tian Ersan. He can go out and play when he wants to, and he doesn't need to care about those burdens when he doesn't want to play.

When Tian Ersan doesn't contact anyone, no one can send him messages. He's not afraid of being disturbed, and he doesn't have to worry about these women framing him.

Artificial intelligence quickly changed the message.

[Afterwards, we found many high-quality beauties, all of whom are iconic beauties who conform to your and the public's aesthetic standards. At the same time, the magazine only selects beautiful female models and rejects all kinds of high-end aesthetics defined by others.]

If you don't like these, here's a message you might be interested in.

Instead of immediately switching messages, the artificial intelligence first tried to make amends for its own behavior and misjudgments.

This is very inefficient.

But it's very much about artificial intelligence.

Shifting blame and shirking responsibility are obstacles to the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Tian Ersan casually said, "Forget it, what she does is her business. Anyway, there's no need to worry about the impact now. What else is going on? Who's pregnant again?"

The AI ​​replied, "It's not about pregnancy. It's about Li Zi, the younger sister of Li Biao, who was imprisoned five years ago. She was released two days ago and, because she has no family or place to live, she's been scavenging for food in the garbage bins these past two days."

Tian Ersan frowned and thought for a moment, and realized that there was indeed such a person.

How is Zhou Shanshan?

Tian Ersan asked about another woman.

The AI ​​replied: "All social media accounts of the four members of the Zhou family have been blocked, all registration functions have been banned, they are unable to leave the country, and their properties cannot be traded."

Aside from scrolling through his WeChat Moments when he has nothing to do, Tian Ersan rarely touches his phone throughout the year.

But normal humans can't do that. In this information age, having all social media accounts blocked is basically the same as going to jail.

Unable to use the communication and social networking software that everyone else uses, and even having to pay with cash, and unable to use the shortcut functions of both companies.

The misfortunes of these two people have nothing to do with Tian Ersan. One of them is the one who harmed young girls, and the other is the one who had a financial dispute with the live streaming platform and always falsely accused Tian Ersan of being infertile.

Tian Ersan thought for two seconds, "After serving five years in prison, she should have come to her senses by now. Since she has turned over a new leaf, let's give her a temporary job in the company cafeteria. She won't have to eat garbage outside all the time. It's a shame to throw away so much leftover food in the company."

Artificial Intelligence: “Yes.”

***
The city-states wouldn't be so crude in their work; they wouldn't conscript people to do work in broad daylight.

Around 1 or 2 p.m., just as Li Zi was about to steal the takeout, a group of women who had been looking elsewhere suddenly turned to look at her, and more than fifty people jumped out from behind the nearby green belt that was out of sight.

Sixty or seventy people were taking pictures of Li Zi, who was stealing takeout, with their phones.

A bunch of scoundrels quickly surrounded Li Zi, who was twenty-three or twenty-four years old.

"Squat down!"

"Hold your head with your hands!"

"Spread your legs wider!!"

"Take off your clothes!"

After being watched for five minutes, Li Zi was quickly taken to the security room of the Chengbang Trade Building, where she continued to silently squat down with her head in her hands, receiving special employee training from the Chengbang Group.

These regular employees who do nothing but take vacations all day really don't treat others like human beings.

Fortunately, this is a city-state, and even though Li Zi has been out of touch with society for the past five years, she is well aware of the strength of the city-state group.

Chengbang Group is indeed very powerful. It now has 100,000 full-time employees and 500,000 to 600,000 temporary workers and related personnel, making it a super enterprise.

The wealth of the City Group mainly comes from overseas. It is a partner of the Smith Group in East Asia and controls hydropower, road and factory construction projects in several Southeast Asian countries.

The city-state architecture is no longer located in China; its focus is now overseas.

They also purchased a large amount of land in Canada to develop aerospace technology, while domestically they mainly focus on retail and shopping technology. Even the manufacturing industries they have are mostly for their own companies.

The money in China is used for food, entertainment, welfare, and retirement for domestic employees, while the money abroad is used for continued technological research and development in the local area.

***
Time slowly passed and June arrived.

Tian Ersan rode out of the government hall on horseback and began to inspect the territory.

After leaving the government hall, Tian Ersan walked onto Xingfu Street. On the wide street in front of the government hall, one or two girls or women in sailor uniforms, tight clothes, stockings and short leather skirts stood at the door of each household.

It's been almost five years, and the Star Kingdom's governing hall is about to be upgraded to a level nine governing hall!

The ruling hall of the branch city of Glory City has also reached level six, providing 12,000 households and more than 100,000 people.

The Star Kingdom has a larger population, but most of them are concentrated in the city to work and develop, leaving only about 20,000 idle people and children outside.

Lu Changlin was too busy with work to chat with Tian Ersan.

Both cities are currently researching technology, and the two academies can research different technologies. They can also concentrate their troops by dispatching them.

Archers recruited through skills are special units and cannot be separated from the general who summoned them.

After sharing technology, Glory City's technology, construction, recruitment, and production speeds all improved significantly.

Tian Ersan walked a few hundred meters more before finally giving in.

"Why are there so many women wearing sexy lingerie on the street? Is today some special day?"

The cavalryman Wang Hejin, who was standing next to him, gave a simple and honest smile. "They said that all the women outside are like this. It just so happens that Li Chuhong had stockpiled a lot of unsold lingerie, so she gave them all to wear."

Tian Ersan continued his patrol of the streets with a blank expression.

These women, they have nothing better to do than fuss over trivial matters. They don't know how to use their energy for something worthwhile!

That Li Chuhong! It's a very profitable clothing business, but this woman has made it lose money every year, and Chengbang has to subsidize her every year!

Useless woman!

Lack of ambition!
Next year, you'll be able to come back and work the land!
Tian Ersan refrained from cursing, after all, everyone was watching his every word and action.

Although he wasn't exactly respectable in public and had done his fair share of unethical and vulgar things, he still had to act like a lord when it came to managing his territory and caring for his people.

However, after looking around, Tian Ersan realized that these women were indeed bored out of their minds and had nothing to do all day.

"Tomorrow, everyone will be given a cell phone to use indoors and play games. Don't stand at the door all day; it's indecent and disgraceful."

"Alright!" Wang Hejin agreed with a smile, since it wasn't his job to do this kind of thing anyway.

If he doesn't go out, he doesn't need to be responsible for things outside.

The main task of the five metal brothers is to patrol and maintain order inside and outside the city.

Meanwhile, scouts were also stationed on the outer perimeter to relay intelligence in a timely manner.

Logically, the city should be under attack, but it hasn't been attacked in the past few years.

Tian Ersan led his cavalry and archers to the outskirts of the city. Near the wilderness, a dozen kilometers outside the city, there was a stinking mountain of excrement.

There are also several water tankers transporting sewage nearby.

Since gaining the ability to transfer external objects into space, Tian Ersan has done a lot. Not only did he transfer and assemble the power plant equipment built by the Smith Group, but he also brought in a large number of animals and plants.

They also hid a lot of guns, cannons, flamethrowers, and the Smith Group workers could immediately start producing all kinds of advanced weapons here once they were transferred in.

Tian Ersan allowed Leona and others to use their own men to work for foreigners for this reason. Otherwise, he would never have wanted Leona and Smith to ask their own men to do hard labor for their own purposes.

Because there are some things that Tian Ersan himself doesn't know, and he doesn't have time to learn all sorts of miscellaneous skills, he needs his subordinates to learn them on their own.

Tian Ersan certainly wouldn't have a good attitude towards someone who lacks ambition, is always complacent, and especially likes to hold others back.

The reason why Li Cuihua and Li Chuhong have been tolerated until now is because they came out early and made some contributions.

Li Cuihua and Li Chuhong were not valued because of their abilities; everyone else had the same abilities, and they would have done even better if they had been replaced.

It just happened to be because I came out early.

Whether it's developing technology or expanding urban areas, these are things that Tian Ersan clearly wants to do, but some people just drift along without any ambition.

Despite not lacking manpower, Tian Ersan continued to tolerate the earliest group of people who came out.

Besides the development of the city, Tian Ersan was also concerned about exploring extraterrestrial planets.

"After piling up for so long, it still can't decompose?"

Wang Hejin replied, "I don't know, we've never had a biologist appear here."

Smelling the stench of the manure mountain, Tian Ersan led his men to the next location.

Thanks to the efforts of numerous manure-generating machines, and also because of the cow manure processing and recycling facilities in Yizhuang, a large amount of manure can be continuously moved into the space every year.

These excrements cannot affect the growth of farmland and forest land, as the two seem to belong to different levels of elements.

However, the air in the space is universal, and the cattle and sheep that come in from outside can breathe normally, but they can't chew the flowers and plants here, and they can't even drink the water from the lake.

Flowers and grass have already grown in the areas where the feces have been diluted.

The cattle and sheep were driven by the system to a special feed warehouse to eat feed.

These system horses are produced in the system's stables. They are used to train cavalry, but they can also help herd chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and other horses.

They also have reproductive isolation with each other.

Wang Hejin followed Tian Ersan, looking left and right but there was nothing interesting to see.

"My lord, what's the point of establishing a base on the moon?"

Tian Ersan smiled, quite willing to answer this kind of question.

"It can serve as a stepping stone to go further to Mars, and even further."

Wang Hejin knew a little about this. "The moon doesn't have an atmosphere to retain moisture. If we were to build a base there, it wouldn't be convenient to be inside a glass enclosure all day, would it?"

Tian Ersan replied, "If we want to establish a base on the moon in the future, the most reliable way is to live underground, manufacture and produce equipment, research technology, and further concentrate our efforts on doing things."

Wang Hejin thought this was pointless. "Even if it's underground, it won't make much of a difference, right? Why go to the moon to do things that can be done at home? It would be much better to just land on Mars."

Tian Ersan said with a smile, "Studying at home is definitely different from studying in a study room. For example, some people get distracted by all sorts of things when they are at home, but if you send her to the moon, she will only think about how to come back."

"I think we need to send some people to the moon in order to have the motivation and possibility to go to Mars."

“I’m the same way.” Tian Ersan admitted that he was similar to Li Cuihua, Li Chuhong and others. “So I need to change myself. If I don’t put pressure on myself, I will become complacent in my comfort zone and not strive for progress.”

Wang Hejin roughly understood Tian Ersan's idea.

"So when are we going to the moon?"

"I'll go after the Governing Council reaches level ten."

Wang Hejin nodded indifferently, not caring what this matter meant for countries around the world.

After making his rounds, Tian Ersan remembered the group of women who were standing idly in the street when he was about to return to the city.

"In the future, we'll build a car factory both inside and outside the city, and make those women who can't do construction or picking work 20 hours a day in exchange for 4 hours of playing on their phones!"

"Okay." Wang Hejin agreed with a smile, accepting the task without a care in the world.

The technology used in car factories is all here. The Smith Group has a car factory in its cotton market plant and has taken in many engineers and technicians from the automotive industry.

If locals are willing to learn and have formal employment, these newcomers from other places will certainly be willing to teach them, thus eliminating barriers.

One of the great things about Cotton City is its studious atmosphere. When you visit Cotton City, you will find that adults and children, men and women alike are all reading and learning.

The library there is always packed, and the books people read are all kinds of very hardcore professional books.

This environment naturally aroused the desire of intellectuals from various countries to emigrate, wanting to provide the best environment for the next generation to grow up in.

After making his rounds, Tian Ersan arrived at the administration hall.

With a soothing white light fading away, the brand-new Level 9 Governing Hall was officially completed!
The ninth-level governing hall has no new functions.

For Tian Ersan, the main benefits are increased space, more hero positions, and reduced consumption to 10%.

"A simple and unpretentious improvement, without any surprises."

Tian Ersan smiled and said, "Not bad. It takes twenty years to go from level nine to level ten, but if you use a strategy, it will probably only take six or seven years."

It actually takes quite a bit of time to go from level eight to level nine, but Tian Ersan is inhumane. He forcibly hires and fires multiple tool generals to take turns doing construction.

Impatient: Dedicate all your energy to immediately complete a building/research project. Level 1 reduces time by up to 100 hours. Can only be used once per day.

Double the effort for half the result: Spend 50 energy points to double the speed of a building/technology within three hours, but the speed of participating workers and academies will be reduced to 50% for the next 24 hours.

It was precisely by relying on the massive rotation of construction workers and generals that the government hall was able to be upgraded to level nine in a short period of time.

Lu Changlin walked over and said with a smile, "My lord, don't rush to upgrade the buildings. Wait until the building technology reaches level ten before we talk about it. It will only take two months, and the time reduction will definitely be longer than these two months."

Tian Ersan nodded in agreement.

"Okay, whatever you say. What do you think is the best birthday reward for me this time?"

Lu Changlin already had the answer: "In my opinion, we have no shortage of money and resources, and we still have enough heroes. We might as well choose equipment, skill books, and treasures."

Tian Ersan didn't want to rack his brains anymore, "Which one is the most suitable?"

"Equipment," Lu Changlin reminded him. "Among so many of us heroes, including you, my lord, we are all lacking in equipment."

Tian Ersan has now made his choice.

The more equipment you have, the better.

Last year I got the Pear Blossom Spear, but I was very dissatisfied with the weapon at the time. Later I found out that it added seven or eight points to internal affairs and martial prowess, but you need to be level 90 to use it.

The highest level I have is currently Lao Lu, who is only level 65, so I put him in the warehouse.

Knowing what you lack makes things much easier.

Happy birthday! May you have many more birthdays to come!

Today is your birthday, make a wish!

Please choose one of the following types as your reward. A lucky draw will be held shortly, randomly selecting one reward from number one to five!

[Food, Soil, Wood, Stone, Metal, Troops, Copper Coins, Equipment, Skill Books, Heroes, Speed-Up Items, Treasures, Medicine, Blueprints]

"Equipment! Stop drawing, just give it to me!"

Tian Ersan didn't want to look at the lottery interface; it was all the same anyway.

【ding dong~】

Congratulations on obtaining the legendary item: Ink Fragrance Necklace!

Name: [Ink Fragrance Necklace]

Type: necklace

Grade: Peerless Equipment

Description: This pendant, crafted using ancient glass techniques, embodies the essence of a thousand years of ink painting. Wearing it can calm the mind and promote a continuous flow of literary inspiration.

Energy +150
Defense +200
Commander +10
Domestic Affairs +45
Bravery +7
Intelligence +50
Grooves: 3
An additional 5% of stamina is restored every hour.

Research speed increased by 15%

"Not bad." Tian Ersan took off the ink-scented necklace from his neck and handed it to Lu Changlin, who was wearing the Pangu ring.

Lu Changlin happily accepted the necklace and put it on.

"Thank you, my lord! With this, the research will be much faster, and the construction of a level 10 government office will be reduced by several months."

(End of this chapter)