Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

Moreover, this is the practice during peacetime. In wartime, under the circumstances of forced occupation, this ratio would need to be around 1:12.

In other words, there must be one educated and ideologically steadfast cadre among every 12 people to ensure a relatively smooth process and effective governance.

Instead of relying too much on the local local tyrants, gentry, nobles, and landlords, if that were the case, the outcome would be similar to the Beiyang Revolution, just like in "Ah Q," where the county magistrate is still the county magistrate, the head constable is still the head constable, and Old Master Zhao is still Old Master Zhao, only with a different name.

Therefore, some immature and clueless individuals who only know how to kill and readily resort to mobbing will never understand how many people are needed to establish a regime.

To rule the entirety of Ursus, they would need a reliable administrative body, a hierarchical structure connecting the top and bottom, grassroots governance departments, and a vast workforce comprised of senior bureaucrats, middle managers, and junior technical personnel.

This number is no less than 1000 million. Even the CCP is not really just a bunch of peasants. In terms of average education level, the CCP's ranks are quite high.

While skills training can be done through experienced mentors and literacy education can be implemented gradually, ensuring the reliability and integrity of ideological knowledge is much more difficult, unless Talulah can conjure up thousands of highly skilled political commissars within a few days.

Conquering the world is easy, but ruling it is far more complicated than some novices think, as if it were just a matter of a few words. If it were that simple, there wouldn't be so many great undertakings cut short by death, nor so many rulers who lost their kingdoms.

As for the internal factions, the inevitable corruption and other problems that will arise as progress increases have not yet been mentioned. There are always people who think that a political party or a country is the property of themselves or a few people, and that the people below are just NPCs who can maintain their purity and loyalty indefinitely, and can even conjure up qualified grassroots governance personnel out of thin air.

Currently, China has approximately 4000 million civil servants, but there is still a chronic shortage of staff at the grassroots level. The ratio of permanent staff to temporary workers is roughly 1:20, and some departments with heavy workloads still face staff shortages. So, those idiots who think they can just massacre people and kill anyone who disobeys should save their breath—you're just the lowest level of bandits…

Old Xia was quite satisfied with the result, which meant that his business was now legal in Ursus, and he could use this legal status to do many things.

For example, openly purchasing minerals and supplies instead of transporting them from Lungmen would result in virtually no loss for him.

As for the strange rumors that some people have spread, such as that this is the work of Lao Xia or that Lao Xia's forces have joined or merged into Ursus, these are simply unfounded.

Whether one is preparing to take the path of capitalism or simply doing business to accumulate capital, it means one thing: they are not here to establish colonial rule. If they are not here to establish colonial rule, they do not need the privilege of "extraterritoriality".

Without the privilege of "extraterritoriality," it goes without saying that if you conduct production activities in a local area, you should abide by the local national sovereignty and laws, and obtain permission and protection from the local governing structure. As for how the Covenant handles this, that's a completely unpredictable matter.

Although Terra's ruling institutions are outdated and its system is still stuck in the backward feudal era, this does not mean that it is not a legitimate local government, but a group of bandits and vagrants. If that's the case, then shouldn't China declare countries like Sudan and the recent one in Afghanistan to be illegal regimes, or just a group of pyramid schemes?

[I don't even know how to comment on this example. They even asked how the verdict was made? How was it made? I suggest the other party file an administrative lawsuit and complaint to get this clueless prosecutor punished and sent home to farm—of course, based on my experience, the most likely outcome is that the court will dismiss the case and refuse to accept this absurd nonsense…]

Therefore, this is just a very normal business investment cooperation. When foreign companies invest in China, the local government provides policy protection and preferential treatment. When Chinese companies go to Africa to open farms, they build good relations with local chiefs and provide certain nominal support and assistance in exchange for the right to develop mines and fields and make them legal. This is no different from colonial plunder or illegal business.

It doesn't involve any bizarre issues like mergers or joining. If this means Lao Xia is joining Ursus, then Tencent should be Japanese, Ant Group should be South African, and PetroChina doesn't even know who it belongs to. After all, if this logic holds true, it would also belong to Sudan and Egypt.

If the Xia Group's acquisition of imperial endorsement and cooperation with the royal family in Ursus was equivalent to joining Ursus, then its current urban development and cooperation with Lungmen would be equivalent to joining the Great Yan. Not to mention the more direct marriage with Little Tiger, as a marriage partner, which is equivalent to automatically joining Victoria. This is even more legally sound. So, the last person cut it into three pieces.

After all, when it comes to marriage, you could say that Little Tiger gains Star Alliance citizenship along with Old Xia, or you could say that Old Xia automatically gains Victorian citizenship along with Little Tiger. As long as there is no explicit rule prohibiting dual citizenship, theoretically he can hold all of the above identities at the same time.

However, this presents a major problem: Terra's industrial level makes it somewhat difficult for the Covenant to recognize it as an advanced civilization rather than a primitive organization or regime. Considering its advanced technology, Terra should be considered an advanced human civilization, theoretically qualifying it to be a member state of the Covenant and enjoy basic planetary sovereignty.

Without considering advanced technology, this should be a primitive civilization that basically does not recognize its planetary sovereignty. This judgment has nothing to do with its administrative structure and political system, but only with the industrial capabilities of the target civilization being assessed.

According to the Star Alliance's civilization classification standards, races before industrialization are basically defined as intelligent wild animals, not even considered civilizations. The period between industrialization and the information age is defined as primitive civilization, while the period from the information age to the space age is considered a formally civilized civilization.

The standards for responding to them are different. Of course, the above only applies to human races or a rare group of pro-human races. For non-human races, the above standards are usually only related to the type of ammunition carried by the fleet, and basically do not involve political, diplomatic, or economic issues.

After all, even from an objective biological perspective, interspecific competition and intraspecific competition are two different things. Intraspecific competition is governed by basic human morality and principles, while interspecific competition... extermination is the greatest respect for a civilization.

The Star Alliance's alliance structure is divided into two levels: council states and member states. This is roughly equivalent to the difference in power and rule between a completely autonomous region and a regular province. The former has more autonomy and a greater say in the entire decision-making system, while the latter is nominally a country, but in reality, its ruling authority is close to that of a modern provincial unit.

It's roughly somewhere between a province and a state government. After all, the territory and population distribution of an interstellar nation are too vast to be directly governed by the old administrative structures. The kind of interstellar empire that can be ruled by a single word probably only exists in Paradox Interactive players' save files.

Although an agreement seemed to have been reached on paper, and Ursus was no longer an enemy, it did not seem to have any impact on the daily activities of the Xia Group's various departments in the snowfield. Those who were to be extorted were still extorted, and those who needed to fight a battle to get through the eastern front still needed to fight a battle to get through.

The act of hanging noble officers at the front lines was not affected in any way, because everyone knew that the agreement was only on paper, and the emperor could not control the nobles and the Black Serpent, nor could he control the group.

The biggest benefit of this agreement is that the Xia Group is no longer a shell company, and these people are no longer bandits and thugs. They can now legitimately enter any Ursus region to conduct normal business or other activities, including establishing strongholds, production bases, and recruiting employees.

Especially in recruiting employees, it reduces a lot of trouble, since ordinary people would not choose the option of "becoming a thief" unless absolutely necessary.

But now that the Imperial government has officially recognized them as a group of legitimate businesses doing business in the Northern Plains, it's perfectly normal for them to find work.

Although this agreement has essentially put Black Snake on a pedestal, if Lao Xia and his group are a legitimate business, then who are the thugs and illegal organizations they've been fighting for so long and are still fighting now?

However, since the CIA can perform "I hit myself" in Mexico, Black Snake should be able to perform the same act as well.

"In addition, I sent you several truckloads of luxury cloudberry mead. Although there is still a lot of stock here, I do not recommend selling it all."

"I know, I suggest you dilute the rest with water in a certain proportion and sell it as a mid-range, inexpensive product. It would be best to add some vanilla juice to enhance the aroma, but it would also make the taste slightly sour and astringent," Lao Xia offered his professional advice.

Recruiting, training, expanding the school, distributing weapons and tools, and providing resettlement allowances all require a lot of money. The infected people who already had nowhere to go on the snowfields could be paid in cash, but the recruited non-infected people could not.

Their families in other cities were still waiting for this salary to pay taxes, rent, food, and so on. However, the tax system varied under the different noble autonomy of the various Ursus city-states, and not all of them accepted taxes in kind. Therefore, the simplest solution was to issue Ursus silver rubles.

This requires the group to have sufficient cash to cover this enormous expense, which also includes the necessary minerals ordered from the southern mines of Ursus, as well as equipment for contract processing, rent for sales outlets, and a series of other complex expenses.

Compared to the slow progress in Ursus, where the emperor has only now sent people to reach some kind of economic cooperation and political deals, the development progress in Lungmen is much faster. The outer area of ​​the old city has almost completed its transformation, and about one-third of the shops and small businesses have moved in. The rows of high-rise buildings and pedestrian shopping streets look like an outlying district of the central city.

In stark contrast to the dirty and chaotic scene of the past, some of the civilians who had moved out have returned with their land expropriation compensation. After all, who wouldn't like to live in their own home in a place where the neighborhood has become more prosperous?

The infected individuals were also given their own residential area, mainly Lao Xia's company's production base in the old town of Longmen. He provided dormitory areas and recruited a large number of basic manual laborers from the infected individuals.

From a technical standpoint, he doesn't need so many junior human workers. People accustomed to highly automated production equipment would prefer a completely automated system in such situations. However... some things are unavoidable.

Some of those who were willing to be reassigned to production bases in Kazdel or Ursus were put on a separate list by Lao Xia, and these people could be transferred there later. At least in terms of farming, manpower is still very valuable.

Their main job is to produce various boxes and low-tech products, as well as to pack goods delivered from the farm and send them to the warehouse. It's a tedious job with low pay, but it's enough for them to survive.

With the outer perimeter renovations completed, it was time for Lao Xia to lead the team to work on the core area. The original power engines and generator compartments needed to be completely replaced with advanced technology products from the Xia Group, eliminating the need to hire a large number of electrical engineers to handle the work.

Although some Originium Arts assistance is still needed to facilitate the operation of Terrans, there are still quite a few qualified candidates among the technical talents who have become Infected for some reason to be able to perform some basic maintenance.

"The last pipe has been connected, and we can finally say goodbye to the era of citywide power outages and the noise of temporary generators on the streets."

This is why only one-third of the shops have moved in. Due to the power system modification, there is no electricity, and only the Originium generator made by Lao Xia, which is very noisy, is keeping things in order. Many people are watching and waiting, and some have even started to regret their decision.

If the power system hadn't actually been installed, debugged, and modified, they probably would have already demanded a refund. Fortunately, after a period of intense work, led by Lao Xia, a master of wet components, they finally completed the installation of four tower generators and eight tower engines, including the matching blade cooling pipes and blade cooling box system.

"Power on!" After the test was successful, Lao Xia closed the switch, and the dragon flame burned steadily inside the container, converting the source stone energy into heat energy, then into kinetic energy, and finally into electrical energy output. Waste heat was absorbed by the leaf cooling system.

Then, a portion of the energy is transferred back into the reaction chamber, while the unavoidable waste energy is discharged from the bottom of the mobile city through the bottom exhaust system, which is much safer than the original upward exhaust.

Around the exhaust vent, there is also Lao Xia's degradation barrier, which continuously sprays Originium settling solution, causing the Originium particles to quickly settle into pieces of bluish-black useless waste energy crystals. These crystals absorb energy from sunlight and natural heat sources and recharge themselves.

Of course, under natural conditions, this refilling speed takes place over periods of centuries or even millennia.

Therefore, there's no need to consider things like Originium ranches or Originium farms, unless you stuff them into the mantle fluid.

The biggest advantage of rebuilding the entire city is that the cabling can be planned and completed in an integrated manner. The unique structure of the mobile city allows for independent power supply to each area without having to consider grid connection with other cities. With a single power source and unified cabling, the efficiency of building the power grid becomes very high.

Soon the lights on the outskirts of the old town began to come on, followed by the classical-style streetlight system designed by Victoria, which Old Xia had paid a hefty sum to have lit up, illuminating the entire outer ring of the old town like a dazzling ribbon of light.

The core area remained dark because the buildings there were not yet completed, including his Longmen Company headquarters, the Sanlian Pharmaceutical headquarters, and other facilities.

Only the construction site lights seemed like scattered spots of light in the darkness. The renovation of the old city was mostly completed here. What remained was the construction of various buildings, the expansion of production areas, the gradual move-in of shops and stores, the purchase of materials, the sale of goods, and the hiring of employees. Complex economic activities converged like trickles of water into a torrent structured around money.

Although it currently appears weak, Lao Xia believes that all that remains is to wait for it to expand naturally, and then he will be able to harness this torrent to completely overwhelm the warlords of Kazdel.

The infected in Ursus have nothing and lack sufficient manpower, so they can only absorb people with kindness.

However, Kazdel is different. There are more warlord forces here, unlike the North Plains No Man's Land. For this area, Lao Xia's strategy is completely different. Angel time is over, and next comes the time of the most ferocious demon from hell—the capitalist.

[PS]

My dad had hemorrhoid surgery, so I won't have much time to update today. I'll just post a quick, filler chapter.

Chapter Thirty-Five: Falling Star

Chapter 35

On the snowy plains, at the top of the medical station, "Hmm?" Kal'tsit looked up from the observation equipment, seemingly puzzled, and looked back at the sky. After a few minutes, she pulled a communicator out of a drawer.

"Hello? Dr. Kal'tsit? What happened?" Old Xia sounded like he was extremely busy. After the power modification was completed, his manufacturing center and industrial base were almost ready to go into operation. He was responsible for and supervised a whole host of things, including personnel training, equipment debugging, and trial production.

In Terra, many technologies are merely rudimentary forms of high technology; in reality, they still retain the feel of the First Industrial Revolution era.

For example, their drones are a typical case. They have drones but no proper control programming and flight control programs. So how are the drones controlled?

The answer is: it is controlled by the information carrier generated by the Originium Effect Field by the warlock. This may sound technical or convoluted, so in layman's terms, it is like the warlock is using an invisible hand to hold up this model airplane and fly it around in the sky.

[Just like the guns in Terra, only the exterior is the same, but the core... is basically the same as an ATM with a teller actually crammed inside...]

This leads to problems and issues arising from their inertia when they start using truly specialized and precision equipment. Some of these problems stem from their inability to adapt to the production equipment assembled by Lao Xia, while others are due to Lao Xia's inability to adapt to their production methods. Both sides need considerable time to gradually adjust to each other.

"You sound very busy?"

"Yes, the equipment in light industry, especially the food industry, has always been a nightmare difficulty in mechanical design. I've been spending half a month in this beverage factory." It sounded like he had overdone his cultivation.

The food light industry means raw materials that combine characteristics such as softness, stickiness, amorphousness, bubbling, splashing, and even explosiveness, making them a nightmare for automated mechanical processing.

Don't ask why explosions can happen in the food industry; for example, flour mills are things that could potentially explode.

As for the sugar shavings floating everywhere, it's true that when mass-producing desserts like marshmallows, the cooling sugar shavings will float around, and splashing everywhere is even more common.

"I have a question for you, about your origins."

"What's the problem?" Old Xia gestured to the workers to start the next round of trial production, to see where they still needed to use Originium Arts, and then design corresponding shielding or omission processes to prevent the beverages from being contaminated by Originium particles. The Terrans themselves didn't care, but he was more concerned about this matter.

Will your hometown send someone to look for you?

"Theoretically speaking, yes, but practically speaking, it's hard to say..." Old Xia thought for a moment and said.

"It depends on the type of accident. If it's during a jump or during normal navigation, rescue usually comes quickly as long as the ship's distress signal is broadcast. If there's no broadcast, it depends on whether the captain has used the voyage tracking system."

Space rescue is not something that some people think they can find simply by a country or some force wanting to do it.

In reality, most of the time the search and rescue efforts are fruitless; nothing is found, and who knows where it went—

Shipwrecks and plane crashes are difficult to find even if they occur on the vast ocean, let alone in the even more expansive outer space.

"Moreover, without the supermembrane signal marker, even if I blew up this entire land to indicate that I am here, it would take at least 6 hours for detectors at the edge of the galaxy to be able to observe me."

If the search and rescue team hadn't been nearby, it would have been two years before neighboring star systems could see it, and approximately 4000 to 2 years before the Covenant mainland could see it—assuming we're currently on the Covenant's borders.

"So, in reality, rescue efforts are almost impossible?"

"If it's a jump voyage accident, it's still manageable. As I just said, the captain has the track drawn, and the nearest navigation and communication base station will automatically delineate the area based on the last known signal range. As far as I know, optimistically, it will take about ten years, and pessimistically, fifty or sixty years, unless you disappear in a densely populated area. Otherwise, the search speed will be extremely slow, after all, the starry sky is too vast."

"In the case of a conventional flight accident, it usually happens relatively quickly. After all, you're near the end of the jump, and the ship's normal speed won't be too high."

Generally, searching an area around the end of a jump track is sufficient. It could take a few months at best, or a year or two at worst.

"As for stargate malfunctions or accidents that lead to crashes, theoretically speaking, we don't even bother looking for them." Old Xia was also worried about this issue. Whether it was a Covenant jump accident, a warp accident, or an accident during normal navigation when the warp engine was cooling down, the chances and time of rescue for these three types of accidents were completely different.

"Because if it's a stargate accident—although I haven't heard of it, it's technically possible—then it means you could exist anywhere in the physical universe, or even be evenly distributed anywhere."

Even more terrifying is that, considering the actual principle of stargate jumping, you could also be located at any position in one of the 11 spatial dimensions of the physical universe…

This is why, once Lao Xia discovered that the super-membrane antenna was missing, he basically didn't need to wait for rescue.

"If my distress signal is still working, then the chances of rescue are relatively high. Whether it's mine or the signal from the Windrunner wreckage, as long as it's working and we're no more than 2 light-years away from our home planet, the probability of receiving rescue within 20 years is very high."

"What if they arrive early? How will they treat the Terrans?"