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"The bad news is that you sent me the whole set of space station components that would have allowed you to live a good life."

Inside that classified cargo box was a small orbital watch station, a facility for docking orbital army patrol boats, roughly equivalent to a space police station.

It includes a living area and a working area. The living area is equipped with a complete water purification and circulation system and a greenhouse system. Lao Xia checked it and found that it also came with more than 20 kinds of necessary seeds and breeding equipment. In other words, when fully deployed, it can be used as a miniature space station.

"It's an amplified design, you know what that means, right?"

Johnny looked dejected. "I know," he said. "The augmented facility is a standard module structure used to expand the original space station. It does not have independent power supply and communication equipment. It was originally intended to expand the previous space station, so there is no need to do this kind of duplication."

"Moreover, as an orbital army facility, it is also equipped with a miniature orbital strike unit and six sets of space-based operational drones. Theoretically, if you deploy it, you can clear a safe passage between Earth and space, and also perform some maintenance and recovery on the spacecraft, further expanding this space station."

"Then, you sent it to me." For Lao Xia, nothing in it was useful; the orbital strike unit was unusable, and the space drones were unusable within the atmosphere.

Moreover, it only expands the facilities and does not include the original army production line and rail rapid reaction airdrop pod system. Therefore, it is also unable to produce ground combat drone corps.

Of course, for the guys mentioned above, this thing is quite useful. Although the strike unit is miniature, it is mainly used to intercept illegal aircraft taking off from the ground, rather than to penetrate the atmosphere for orbital bombing.

However, clearing away some meteorite fragments and rocks to create a relatively safe airdrop path is not a problem.

As for the six sets of operational drones, they can disassemble and recover parts of the spacecraft's wreckage, further expanding the space station's structure and giving it enough space to meet its survival needs, at least making it better off than it is now.

"So what do we do now?"

“I’ll try to build you a retro rocket and launch it back up. But I have to reduce its weight, and I can’t guarantee that it will reach your location safely and accurately. It would be a miracle if it made a safe emergency landing, and miracles don’t happen twice.”

"However, there is a compromise."

"What is it?"

"I launched it into lunar orbit. However, this requires my Arc Jet engine, because there is a relatively safe passage from Terra to the Moon."

For some reason, this area, perhaps due to gaps left over from the shipbuilding process, contains extremely large fragments of Originium, rather than small pieces, making it relatively much cleaner.

"But I'm not a professional aerospace designer, nor do I have a space control team. So, all I can do is send it crashing onto the lunar surface at a relatively steady speed. How much usable material can be recovered is your problem."

"Second, you need to get your wreckage moving and crash it onto the moon. If you survive, it will be usable. Now the choice is yours: do you choose to be a hero and take a gamble, or do you continue to cower in the cockpit like this?"

"But even if everything goes smoothly, I don't know how to do anything..."

“I know how to do it. I know how to install and grow things in a space greenhouse. I’m from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. So, Johnny, you can choose for yourself. Anyway, with the Windrunner’s fuel reserves, you shouldn’t lack energy until you die. It’s just that we don’t know how long the recycling equipment will last.”

"Let me think about it." The other person was obviously going to contemplate life. There is great terror between life and death, especially when you are in a pile of wrecked ships.

"It would be best to tell me before the next launch window, about sixteen days from now, when the moon will be directly overhead. At that time, a relatively safe passage will be formed, and I will launch the rocket. You will also have to find a way to get the debris to hit the moon along this passage."

"Can't we make an emergency landing on the ground?" If the Earth and the Moon are aligned, theoretically, an emergency landing is possible.

"How much of your wreckage heat shield do you think you have left?" Landing on the moon and landing on a planet are two different things. The latter requires consideration of shock waves, and the entire ship could potentially break apart in the atmosphere. Keep in mind that this is not a complete Windrunner cargo ship, but a pile of wreckage, and its structural strength has been greatly reduced.

"I... let me think about it." Johnny wasn't a courageous person, and it was precisely because of his cowardice and tendency to run away that he was able to act.

So he's still alive. So, while running away is shameful, it can be useful. So, should he continue to run away or take a gamble?

Without a doubt, if you choose to run away, you still have a high chance of surviving, but if you choose to take a gamble, you're almost certainly doomed.

Whether the wreckage hits a meteorite midway, shatters on the lunar surface, or the emergency landing site is far from the cargo container launched by Lao Xia, or the cargo container is destroyed or tilted before it even reaches the moon, or there is insufficient fuel, etc., his survival rate will instantly drop to 0. It would be better to continue to survive in the cockpit.

Regardless of whether Mr. Johnny needs this help or not, Old Xia must immediately begin repairing the arc engine. The workshop's equipment is barely adequate. For a kid like him who grew up in a repair shop, repairing this thing isn't too difficult, but it's not exactly easy either.

After all, his father used to do most of the work; he was just an assistant.

Moreover, the tools at hand are limited, and some equipment cannot be easily purchased online. After graduation, I have become somewhat rusty and forgotten about the things I learned in the club.

The electric arc engine is divided into four main parts. The first part is the power section. If this part is damaged, Lao Xia's suggestion is to just throw it away and buy a new one. The second part is the control section. Similarly, if it is damaged, just buy a new one. There is no need to repair it.

The remaining reactive boosting section and the arc acceleration injection section are the parts that can be repaired, mainly the various coils and magnetic field generators, as well as the pipes that control the injection speed of ion fuel. These are the parts that caused the failure of the two engines.

One engine's boost section was pierced by a meteorite, creating a large crack. The other engine's acceleration jet section was damaged during a forced landing. Theoretically, the simplest repair would be to swap these two main sections of the two engines, but in practice, it's not that easy.

Old Xia had to check each part inch by inch, and then confirm that each part was up to standard before repairing and correcting it. In the end, the quality and reliability of the engine could not be guaranteed.

Chapter 43 The Little Rabbit in Charge (Part 2)

Chapter 43

Sanlian Pharmaceutical, top-floor office. "Is this what it feels like, Lao Xia?" Yelena sat in a large chair, turned around, and looked through the floor-to-ceiling windows at the old town that was gradually becoming bustling. The rows of buildings looked like neat crops in a field. From this height, people looked like swarms of ants, moving in neat lines among these buildings.

Each of them was acting for Lungmen Dollars, like insects drawn to honey, and this sugar pot was in their own hands. Although the prices of the two drugs, "Originium Aggregation Blocker" and "Anti-Originium Injection," were not high, their costs were also incredibly low, and Sanlian's cash flow was very healthy.

This means that Yelena, who is currently temporarily managing the company, has a large amount of funds at her disposal.

Unfortunately, to prevent Yelena from running out of funds due to her lack of skill, Old Xia limited the amount of money she could actually use; the rest required Swire's cooperation.

This doesn't mean that financial control was transferred to Swire, but rather that the money was deposited in their family bank, and any transaction exceeding a certain amount required Old Xia's permission, which wasn't part of the bank's regular business or agreement. But... the bank was owned by his fiancée's family, so providing a little extra service wasn't a problem.

The difference between a family business and a conventional business is significant; his middle and senior management employees are essentially his own relatives.

If it were an enlightened nobleman like Swire who had transferred here, he might even have been a hereditary retainer of their family for generations.

They are not the same as those who are hired from outside or acquired by the company; there are even invisible but obvious class differences between them.

This is most evident in Japanese companies. Regardless of your position, your lineage, status, and seniority determine your influence within the company.

Even enduring personal attacks and insults is perfectly normal. Of course, the closer we get to modern times, the less competitive these family businesses become. For capitalists who are purely profit-driven, it is inevitable to gradually separate the family from management.

However, relatively low competitiveness and the collapse of many businesses do not mean that this type of enterprise has disappeared, does not exist, or is even impossible to exist.

They not only existed in the past, exist now, and may still exist in the future. Most of them have died out, but many small business owners still adopt family-style management in the process of growing and expanding, thus creating new family businesses.

Therefore, no matter what world you're in, there will always be people who can't recognize their own situation and think that eating the same food and wearing the same clothes makes them the same kind of people.

Little did you know, in these small and medium-sized enterprises, where the boss, his family, friends, and lovers serve as middle and senior-level employees, you are not treated like a human being at all.

There will be no empathy or shared sorrow for your plight, and no one will feel uneasy or even rebel because of what happened to you.

The phenomena described above are commonplace in modern workplaces, everywhere. Of course, this implies chaotic company management, significant internal friction, and low competitiveness, inevitably leading to job losses in the face of fierce market competition. However, this doesn't mean they don't exist or are impossible.

[Capitalists' power to control their employees is no different from, or even greater than, that of slave owners over slaves. The threat of dismissal, if not ninety-nine out of a hundred times, can destroy any resistance nine out of ten times—Engels…]

In a sense, the Xia Group is also a typical family business, except that Old Xia is a little different. He simply didn't have any reliable managers, so he had to start cultivating people from his own circle.

"Hey Miss, have you come up with your salary adjustment plan yet? Don't just sigh here." Swire rolled her eyes, her tiger tail swishing helplessly. "Why do I have to be dragged here to do this kind of thing when I'm on vacation?"

"Ahem—" White Rabbit blushed, turned her chair back around, and faced the mountain of documents on the table: salary adjustments, rewards and punishments for some employees, business adjustments, and a whole bunch of other trivial matters. Heaven knows how Old Xia usually manages to finish all this stuff.

"For a company as big as yours, can't you find a reliable secretary and appoint a group of qualified department heads? When I saw that you only had seven middle managers, I almost thought you were going to run away with the money." Swire said with a helpless expression.

It's normal for small business owners with fewer than 20 employees to do everything themselves; it's common for one person to handle finance, human resources, management, and even frontline foreman duties.

But your company, which employs thousands of people in Lungmen alone, only has seven middle managers, six of whom are still in Ursus. Is that even reasonable?

Of course it makes sense. In Lao Xia's mind, having seven young ladies in middle management is a luxury only found in super-large interstellar corporations, like state-owned enterprises.

"How does he manage to complete so much work and still have time to drink coffee, go shopping, and do handicrafts in factories?"

"Because I don't know how to use Lao Xia's system." White Rabbit was also desperate. "Let me see!" Swire took her tablet, glanced at it, and then fell silent as well.

"It's too rigid. This system is based on pure mathematical analysis, quickly calculating the resource needs and outputs of each department, and then performing optimal numerical allocation. It's too rigid; only someone like you could do that..."

During the growth phase, there is no shortage of profit sources. Only those oddballs who have just started hiring, whose lower-level employees think there are many vacancies above and are therefore very motivated to work hard, can be employed.

Essentially, this is a planned economy allocation system, modified and cobbled together from Lao Xia's agricultural management system.

The accumulated errors and mistakes during this period resulted in this huge pile of stuff in front of the two of them.

"How about we hire another batch?"

"Why didn't you do this earlier? I saw that you only recruited mid- to low-level employees, so I thought you had enough managers and executives. Turns out you're managing everything with a mathematical template... That's unbelievable."

Swire had never seen a company like this before. It was so bizarre, like a real owl mixed in with a row of neat rows of owls of various colors. It was the kind of thing that you didn't think there was anything wrong at first glance, but the more you thought about it, the more you felt that something was off about it.

"It's best not to hire externally directly. Right now, all your entry-level employees are long-term hires. Hiring external managers instead of promoting from among them will greatly affect their work performance..."

Of course, if it's a firm or company like Little Tiger's, bought with his own savings and not caring about profits at all, then it doesn't matter.

She doesn't intend to run the business properly; it's just a consumer behavior to make herself happy, so she doesn't need to care about any personnel management issues.

"The system's recommended list of people who can be promoted right now is... Snow Pheasant? What a strange code name..."

Terra has a strange custom: employees are called by code names instead of their real names after joining the company. It seems that Terrans believe their real names have some kind of power, or it may simply be to avoid trouble, since in this world... there are no ID cards.

“Snowy Pheasant? Let me see her personnel file…” Then the little tiger saw an excellent resume: Snowy Pheasant, a former Columbia researcher who resigned for some reason (her work was plagiarized). She didn’t have a high level of education, but her resume recorded many inventions she made in her spare time.

Born in the old town of Longmen, a member of the lower class, he became a mechanical researcher through his own efforts and talent. Although he did not achieve much, he joined the Sanlian with the aim of returning to build his hometown.

Of course, all of this is normal; what's abnormal is her performance. "This girl is an iron woman," Yelena said, adding that there was nothing wrong with the system's recommendation.

“However, her personality is too gentle, making her unsuitable for human resources and management work. Moreover, she is overly diligent, which is an advantage as an employee but a disadvantage as a manager because she tries to do everyone's work herself,” Swire added.

"Therefore, she is more than qualified to be the head of the logistics department at the middle level, and can also serve as the deputy assistant in the finance department. I just don't know how good she is at math."

"In short, judging solely from his resume, he should be a good candidate. Let's add him to our next interview list."

Yelena took out Snow Pheasant's file and put it in a separate folder. These are the so-called "reserve cadres". After that, there will be several interviews and observations. If they are similar to the resume, then they can be promoted.

Of course, it is highly irregular for someone to go from being a low-level ordinary employee to a middle or senior management position.

However, the entire group is now practically an empty shell, with no rules or regulations. It's very easy to get promoted beyond one's level, and there's no issue of blocking anyone's way or dealing with higher-ups.

"However, I suggest you find a second candidate, because when Lao Xia comes back, he will definitely put this guy in his lab. He is a genius in mechanics and automation."

"Then the second candidate is... him." He's just an ordinary guy from Lungmen. Compared to Miss Yukichi's resume, he's practically insignificant. But if we exclude this outstanding guy, he's passable among the remaining candidates.

"I suggest that you don't fill all the professional departments with these people. You still need to recruit. How to strike a balance, which positions to select from lower-level staff, and which positions to recruit professionals from outside is a very complex subject."

Swire's team was all recruited and interviewed by her. It has to be said that she has much more experience in this area than Lao Xia and Yelena.

"On the other hand, why should I use my annual leave to work for you guys here?!" the little tiger cried out in despair.

"Because if you don't want to work for Commander Chen, you'd better work here as part of the exchange."

"That pink-skinned dragon hasn't given up yet!?"

“Not only did we not give up, but we became even angrier because of your escapism.” Yelena didn’t know whether she was comforting or mocking. “In addition, thankfully, your position was retained, or even praised, although when I saw Commander Wei’s expression on TV praising you and the Old City Guard Bureau, it was as if he had been punched.”

Rhine Life's decisive withdrawal from this business certainly made Lungmen safer, but what they gave up was not only the human trafficking business, but also pharmaceuticals and some regular businesses, as a compromise to the alliance between the Xia Group and the Swire Group.

Before finding a way to sow discord and conflict between the two alliances, Rhine Labs wasn't foolish enough to go to war with such a behemoth for a pittance.

Moreover, they are well aware that alliances between such behemoths, which may seem solid and even involve marriage, are simply not yet finding a suitable gap.

In reality, it might be easier to sow discord than to form alliances among small companies that are mutually dependent, and even if Swire tried to stop it, it wouldn't make a difference.

Moreover, marriage itself is a compromise where two fierce beasts cannot afford the cost of fighting each other.

If he had the opportunity to devour the wealth of the Xia Group, this tiger would not waver or hesitate in the slightest.