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"It must start from the bottom. Any candidate who enters through examination must start as a basic civil servant. We must never follow the old path of aristocratic politics and directly grant them bureaucratic status and power."

“But this would take a very long time to sift through and build the framework.” Kal’tsit frowned. Why were these two so naive about this?

“However, this is the only way to absorb the power of the grassroots to the greatest extent and gain the widest support.” This was Lao Xia’s reason, while the doctor’s reason was different. “We have to compromise with some of our collaborators. If we follow Lao Xia’s system, we will have fewer positions that do not affect policy implementation. Now they have been halved. These people can fill the positions that need to be filled.”

"But they might not necessarily have the ability..."

"They're just a transitional phase. If they can still mess things up under the surveillance of Vi and secret police, then they should be hanged. That's definitely not stupidity."

Rather, it's simply malicious; they are agents planted by hostile forces. And if we follow Boss Xia's approach, you'll soon find that as lower-level civil servants are promoted, there aren't even enough positions to accommodate those truly talented individuals.

"So what is an appropriate level of seniority for promotion? After all, not all policies and regions can produce immediate results. What if it becomes too short-sighted and people are eager for quick success?"

It must be said that Kal'tsit seems quite suitable as the laboratory director or the future prime minister, as she can almost immediately find loopholes in these trivial matters.

The biggest problem with this system is that some policies that yield quick and easy results will be implemented, while some long-term policies will not be favored. The former can quickly accumulate quantifiable performance standards and thus get promoted quickly, while the latter, after spending a lot of time, energy and resources, can only get the same promotion result as the former, but at a much slower pace.

"This requires macro-level adjustments from the government leadership, prioritizing some truly beneficial long-term policies and increasing their weight in the promotion process."

Furthermore, Dr. Keshield, we are not building a thousand-year empire, but rather creating an organization to unify human and material resources to execute a salvation plan.

This is also a background similar to when the Star Alliance established this set of rules. They were not trying to build a thousand-year empire or an eternal regime, but rather, in the face of the crisis of extinction, they wanted to quickly establish a highly efficient and pragmatic system to integrate resources, suppress rebellions, and deal with the crisis of extinction.

"In other words, as long as we can achieve our goal, we can use any means necessary. As for the problems and negative consequences, that's a matter for future generations. What we need to do now is ensure that we still have descendants!" The doctor slammed his hand on the table.

Once the rules for bureaucratic promotion are established, the question becomes how many levels of bureaucrats are needed, what their respective treatments and powers are, and then these bureaucrats are assigned to departments and corresponding responsibilities based on their importance and urgency. Finally, the rudimentary form of government emerges.

Although the entire system prohibits promotions that bypass one's rank, it is inevitable that the first batch of officials were still appointed in a human-based manner at the beginning. This is unavoidable. As Kal'tsit said, everyone has this flaw, and neither the Doctor nor Old Xia can escape this rule.

Of course, it's precisely because they both know that if there were no restrictions, they would do the same thing, though perhaps not now.

However, as their voice and influence grow, it's hard to say whether they will engage in nepotism in the future.

Since you've realized this and don't trust your own self-control, the simplest solution is to completely block this power, to the point that even if you wanted to break the rules, you wouldn't be able to.

The lesson learned from the Star Alliance is that if all those who had this power hadn't died, and if the remaining people weren't trapped within these rules and unable to modify them, the system would have collapsed long ago.

"Furthermore, the power to recruit staff and advisors cannot be opened up. This system itself is based on the aristocratic system and was originally intended to make up for the lack of professional quality among administrative personnel."

After all, you can't expect everyone to be a jack-of-all-trades. While discussing policies and decisions with a few people can indeed prevent mistakes, in practice, it inevitably becomes a medium for officials to exchange favors.

"As far as our current level of education is concerned, these consultants must be from noble or wealthy families to have such professional knowledge. They will not make advice out of public interest in the ideal situation. In fact, they will guide the answers according to their own class position."

This was Kal'tsit's addition; she was extremely familiar with this system, something neither Old Xia nor the Doctor realized.

Because the doctor is constantly connected to the knowledge matrix of the constellation Sail, which is filled with highly knowledgeable and loyal professionals, their advice is based on rationality and objectivity.

Behind Lao Xia's Star Alliance professional consultant network are data collected from every smart terminal in every corner of society and even at the grassroots level, as well as decision-making suggestions provided by millions of AI, all linked to every mental core in the Star Alliance that can access the internet.

So, most of the time you're presented with a bunch of good apples to choose from, but your appetite (human capacity) can only select one to eat, which is quite awkward.

For this reason, neither of them was fully aware of the powerful driving force that the advisor and staff system had in leading to changes in bureaucratic positions and interest groups.

However, Kal'tsit was different. Sir Kal'tsit built his extensive network of connections and relationships precisely by working as an advisor and staff member.

She also demonstrated the excellent qualities of a competent politician: she welded the car door shut after getting in.

"Making mistakes is not terrible. Making mistakes means they can learn from them. Allowing them to recruit staff as advisors is tantamount to opening up infiltration channels to all classes. In actual implementation, they may also turn advisors into tutors or other messy names. After all, the political achievements are their own. As for whether the policy will be used, they don't care."

Kelsey points out that this system is likely to resurface and be difficult to eradicate, since they cannot openly disclose the constellation Sail, nor does the Covenant's network of advisors offer better or more efficient advice than any single human expert.

The fact that bureaucrats need the political achievements brought about by the advice of their advisors, rather than the advisors themselves, is a fatal flaw.

Once they find a more efficient and easier way to gain political achievements and promotions, they will abandon this system themselves.

"There's also the issue of property..."

"That's simple. Since we're going to establish a regime, we can't continue using Lungmen currency. We need to digitize the currency and popularize fast electronic payments, so that Cypress and Vi can monitor the flow of every penny..."

What about opening an account overseas?

“Open the reporting channel!” Old Xia glanced sideways. “Besides, perhaps their illegal assets are a lot when concentrated, but how can they compare to a country in terms of individual assets?”

Therefore, any bank attempting to cooperate with us must disclose the financial statements of our personnel, and the agreement must not include services that conceal financial information; otherwise, we will impose punitive sanctions.

"Bankers are in it to make money, not to serve the public. If the risk outweighs the reward, they won't do something so stupid."

"However, this would damage the bank's reputation, causing fear among nobles and officials from other countries..."

"So I've limited it to our own personnel."

“In that case, bureaucrats from other countries would probably be our staunch opponents.”

"Let's just hang them all together, Kal'tsit. You don't actually intend to keep these nobles and bureaucrats around, do you?" The Doctor frowned. "Be serious. We're doing something like stealing a country, not playing house. How can we possibly satisfy everyone?"

"What if they unite? Uniting together to force a change of government is far more advantageous than compromising."

“That depends on the absence of traitors among them.” Old Xia made a comical face. “I’ve already spoken with old Swire, and he said he can support us. However, the price is that he needs to underwrite the issuance and redemption of our foreign bonds.”

The big tiger decisively sold off his competitors, and considering his prospective son-in-law's abilities, wealth, military strength, and the recent investigation into the relationship between Rhodes Island and Theresa, their war bonds are definitely worth the investment.

"Bankers are the most pragmatic and weakest creatures in the world. Once one of them starts betraying the interests of others, the others will rush to do the same, afraid that they will be too slow to do so."

Old Xia didn't agree to all of Tiger's conditions. However, he agreed that he could act as a distributor for Victoria's bonds and all related financial products—but then again, he wasn't at the point of issuing bonds yet.

"So what is the standard for currency?" The Doctor fell silent on the next question, as Kal'tsit had previously been in charge of making money for the Tower of Babel.

To be honest, like Trump, Kelsey is a real expert at managing the economy, but she's really not cut out to be president.

"Originium or Red Gold?" "Red Gold is not suitable. Once the scale increases, it will be neither suitable for collecting seigniorage nor convenient for quantitative easing."

This is why Lao Wei can't implement QE. LMD is a gold standard currency, not a pure credit currency. This is also a major feature of Terra paper money. Otherwise, who the hell would believe you!

In other words, the amount of Red Gold that Lao Wei has can only be issued in Lungmen Coins, and the exchange rate between Lungmen Coins and Red Gold is almost fixed [so the Lungmen Coins corresponding to 1 unit of Red Gold in the production workshop order are almost a constant value].

In other words, the high purchasing power of Lungmen Dollars is also based on the vast gold reserves of the Great Yan Dynasty. Approximately one Lungmen Dollar corresponds to 0.025-0.03 grams of gold, and it can be directly exchanged for pure gold at any exchange in Lungmen.

However, in addition to LMD, Terra also circulates some special credit currencies, such as credit points between enterprises, which are used to circumvent LMD's regulations and conduct barter transactions by exchanging clues and intelligence.

"Deflation...that's true, but if it's Originium, there might be a run on it." After all, Originium is a strategic resource and also an energy source.

"Let them run the dump, I have plenty of stock..."

"How plentiful?" Kal'tsit frowned. She had no idea what to expect unless you gave her a number. If there was a run on the bank and they couldn't get the money out, that would be a real mess.

"Let me show you a video..." Old Xia pulled out a videotape (Terra has these), which was a research video filmed by Miss Bagpipe. Little Tiger also sent Old Xia a copy.

"The volcanic refinery on the snowfield... I must say, Miss Eyjafjalla's abilities are truly remarkable. She actually created a process that uses volcanic heat as energy and the porous adsorption capacity of Originium minerals to re-condense gaseous Originium components." Originally intended to reduce environmental Originium pollution caused by volcanoes, the byproduct is...

The densely packed dark gold blocks were stacked together like piles of red bricks used in construction. Workers, fully encased in protective suits, carefully removed the Originium blocks from the conveyor belt, which were being pressed by the industrial press, and sent them into the cleaning and refining equipment. The final product was a series of standard high-purity Originium blocks.

Piled up like mountains, each pile is about one cubic meter in size, based on the height of the workers. And these cubes, made up of hundreds of Yuanyu bricks, stretch as far as the eye can see in the factory.

"On average, the volcano erupts about 400 tons of Originium components per hour. Of these, the adsorption rate is 1.5% and the refining rate is 43%."

That means I can get 2.5 tons of pure Originium every hour. Yes, the unit is tons. Okay, do you think we can handle a run on the supply?

"You absolutely must not put this on the market!" Kal'tsit exclaimed in horror. If this production capacity were released onto the market, the entire energy market of Terra would immediately collapse. Tens of millions of infected and impoverished people who depended on Originium mining for their livelihood would lose their jobs on the spot, directly igniting the peak of the Great Depression—miners would freeze to death because they couldn't sell their minerals and would be unable to afford any goods, including heating energy.

"Therefore, I think it is time to issue currency using Originium as the benchmark, so that most of the Originium can be stored as physical reserves to meet redemption needs."

Instead of flowing into the market, if there's a massive run on Originium and the market price drops rapidly, those running for Originium will find that exchanging it for currency is more profitable.

"You really don't have an economics degree?"

"No, this is something I just learned in class. Is there a problem?"

"You learn things so quickly?" Kai Maomao felt that something was wrong.

"Soon?" According to Terra's standards, it would take at least three years to complete the knowledge equivalent to six doctoral degrees to graduate from high school. Old Xia scratched his head. Even that mediocre sailor who graduated from vocational high school on the moon could do that!

Have you ever taken an IQ test?

"The test showed that the mental core gave it an 'Above Grade B' rating, meaning there's hope of getting into university, but it requires a lot of hard work." As an interstellar civilization, learning things must be very fast; this is an objective requirement.

As human civilization develops, the amount of knowledge, even in a single field, continues to accumulate and increase. If you don't learn quickly, you'll end up spending your whole life learning old things, with absolutely no time for creation.

"Ahem, so now that we're issuing currency based on Originium, how do we gain credibility?"

“As long as a currency can buy things and offers certain advantages, people will use it on their own. Besides, we now control Kazdel’s necessities—food!”

The next meeting was to discuss the details of the rules. Old Xia wouldn't participate in that part; he needed to go check on the fields first, and it seemed there were some problems in western Kazdel as well.

At this time, there was still one month before the royal banner was raised and the country was officially declared restored, or rather, the Republic of Kazdel was established.

Chapter Sixteen: An Unspeakable Monster Raises the Flag of Rebellion in the North

Chapter 16

Restoring the kingdom, or rather, nominally rebuilding Princess Theresa's rule, is a troublesome matter.

However, compared to establishing a new country from scratch, it is already very simple, because at least you don't need to start from scratch to gain recognition from various countries, and you don't have to face the crisis of being besieged by various countries in the chaotic state of the early days of the country's founding.

A new national flag, emblem, and administrative district division were established; government administrative offices were built; the first batch of officials or cadres were selected and assigned; extra living supplies were distributed to the public during this period; and celebrations were held.

To be honest, even in Showa-era Japan, people knew to distribute some cheap cookies to "share the joy with the people" during times like this, let alone Lao Xia's side.

The flag was not the old Sarkaz flag, but a completely new design, a very strange pattern that looked like two cells, one large and one small, merging together, or like part of a total solar eclipse. If this new regime included not only the Sarkaz but also other races, some people interpreted it directly as representing a multi-racial chimera regime.

The emblem is much more understated, simply replacing the crown and other elements of the original Kazdel emblem with a new emblem composed of gears, ears of wheat, and Mars.

After the leader of Babel, who claimed to have inherited Theresia's will and supported the young Demon King to declare the establishment of the Republic of Kazdel, Victoria was the first to recognize it. Currently, Victoria's dragons and lions are engaged in a large-scale internal struggle and have no time to deal with such matters.

Moreover, the more chaotic Kazdel becomes, the more beneficial it will be for Victoria's interests.

On the contrary, what they fear most is actually Theresis or some other Sarkaz hero reorganizing Kazdel, which would directly threaten Letal and Kazimierz, forcing Letania to make certain compromises. In other words, it would directly threaten Victoria's industrial goods export routes.

If they want to sell their industrial products to Rembiton and Great Flame Dragon Gate, or purchase ore from Rembiton, they can only go through the Dragon-Ursa Passage—everyone knows the road conditions in Ursus and the style of the Border Legion.

Therefore, the more chaotic Kazdel becomes, and the more important it is for Victoria to consider the attitude of the regime that controls the northern trade route of North Kazdel.

Therefore, even though the nobles in the Senate could not accept this behavior on an emotional level, which was almost equivalent to violating the unspoken rules of nobility and royal power, they still acquiesced in the face of practical interests.

Rembitox and Letania followed suit with recognition, their reasons being similar to Victoria's, even if it was to avoid provoking the other side by directly pursuing tariffs at the border—besides, such recognition doesn't require any real benefits, does it?

The more chaotic Kazdel becomes, the less likely it is to produce on its own, and it will have to import weapons, equipment, mineral raw materials, and so on from abroad, right?

However, Letalu refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new regime because it was too small and stuck in western Kazdel.

In other words, they were representatives of those who were plundered by the Sarkaz every year, located near the territories of other forces, too far from Lao Xia and his group, and too close to Theresis and his group.

Da Yan and Ursus remained silent, one maintaining a distant stance by rarely participating in international affairs, and the other due to a lack of shared interests.

Moreover, the young emperor was afraid of becoming an excuse for a new round of uncontrolled expansionist wars in Ursus, so he remained silent.

As for Kazimir, they are still weighing their options, deciding whether to support the opposition or this self-proclaimed new government. These people in Kazimir are used to being the house, and betting on both sides is almost instinctive for them.