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However, this inevitably leads to the influx of enlightened nobles, industrial capitalists, and financial capital from the side of the old and ailing tiger, and a steady and slow gradual encroachment on political power and discourse.

This relationship must be severed, but we can't let Lao Xia get a divorce, because that would not only be inconsistent with our public image, but would also be tantamount to a complete falling out.

Not wanting them to enter the regime is different from not wanting their money. Therefore, severing the close relationship between the group and the regime and weakening the group's own voice and privileges are all means to an end, thereby weakening and marginalizing these "relatives of the emperor".

Establishing a country is not as easy as novices think, or that it only requires military conquest. Just coordinating the forces, powers, restrictions, and demands of various parties, both internal and external, takes a lot of time.

Unfortunately, the water that gets into his brain right now is the tears he'll shed in the future. The Doctor doesn't dare to be too hasty and can only proceed slowly, hoping that Theresis in the south can have a good year—or at least a good year where the north doesn't cause trouble.

As for the fact that nearly half of the South, which is already half of the country, is engulfed in flames, allowing the Northerners to celebrate the New Year by "watching from the sidelines," that's not Dr. Tracy's problem. Whether the more bandits are suppressed, the more bandits there will be is something that Therese will be very worried about.

In addition to political restructuring, industrial development in the north also needs to be put on the agenda immediately. The occupied cities have restored initial order, and the next step is to resume production and establish new factories and industries.

In this area, both the industrial and agricultural sectors require Lao Xia to handle and resolve issues. The first to be addressed are the "food processing industry" and the "crop industry." Needless to say, the crop industry began to resume production in the early stages of the occupation. However, the food processing industry is a completely new concept.

"Meat, eggs, and dairy products are the key items," Old Xia said to Yelena as he sketched something on a piece of paper. "Since livestock farming in the north has basically recovered, the industry's ability to withstand risks is very poor. Once there is a change in the climate or other events, it will lead to mass bankruptcies among practitioners. Prioritizing the establishment of a livestock processing system can greatly reduce this risk."

After all, live livestock are not like wheat. If wheat cannot be sold, it can be stored in a warehouse. But if live cattle and sheep remain unsold for even one more day, they will have to eat feed for another day. If they eat feed for several more days, the herders and farmers will lose money if they sell them at the original price.

Meat products are relatively easier to store after slaughter, at least the cost of cold storage is cheaper than raising animals beyond their natural lifespan.

If products can be quickly transformed into industrial goods that can be preserved for a long time after slaughter, storage costs will decrease further, allowing farmers and herders to recover their income as quickly as possible and improve their resilience to environmental risks.

"But I don't understand this..." White Rabbit was completely exhausted. She had finally finished reading Old Xia's livestock textbook, and with a winter of frontline experience, she could barely be considered a livestock expert and veterinarian. But food processing was such a huge leap!

"You don't need to understand the machines and the details; those are handled by the engineers at Longmen. You just need to understand the overall planning. Don't let a place with a pig production capacity of only 1000 heads a year squeeze in eight slaughterhouses just to achieve political achievements..."

This problem is driving Lao Xia crazy! The Star Alliance is a highly planned economy, bro!

The production, processing, consumption, and final consumer market are all planned out in a damn way!

You've crammed eight factories into this area, leaving seven factories missing! We either have to pay exorbitant transportation costs to get the livestock there for processing, or we'll have to build redundant facilities.

Fortunately, this was done by a company employee. Old Xia, as the company's CEO, has the greatest privilege of not reasoning with anyone. Whether you meant well or did something wrong, or did it intentionally to gain credit, you can fire them without hesitation. Not only are they fired, but they've also created a huge problem for Talulah.

The group filed a lawsuit against the individual and his entire team in the name of the group, alleging that the misappropriation of public funds caused significant economic losses, and is seeking compensation for the damages.

This left Talulah completely helpless. Legally speaking, this person was bound to have to pay compensation for unilaterally altering the group's planned use of funds and diverting construction assets from other areas to benefit himself.

However, logically speaking, the other party is the weaker party, while the group is the most powerful one, which left Talulah at a loss for what to do for the time being.

Finally, after arguing for several days, everyone symbolically asked the other party to pay compensation. After all, this bad habit couldn't be allowed to continue, and it also served as a warning to the lower levels of the integration movement. The higher-ups are no longer the easily fooled outsiders of the past. Every penny is planned for its use, and they know exactly whether it's in place, how much it's in place, and how much work has been done. It's best not to make assumptions and do things on your own.

The aftermath of dealing with these seven factories was incredibly difficult for Lao Xia. He had to go through all his knowledge to read through each one before he could realign them. It involved almost two provincial-level regions' transportation planning, affiliated factories, and population relocation – it was almost like making dumplings and preparing a whole feast just for a dish of vinegar.

Direct scrapping or redundant construction is the simplest approach, but it is also the easiest way to foster this biggest drawback of a planned economy.

Therefore, we must stop this bad trend even if it means making dumplings with a dish of vinegar. Anyone who still intends to do this should weigh the consequences: they will either be fired or torn apart by their colleagues in other departments.

The production process of the Alliance is highly planned, but the consumption process is not. Simply put, the losses and scale of each link from raw materials to final consumer products are strictly planned. The consumption capacity of the assembly plant corresponding to a parts factory is exactly about 4/5 of its normal production capacity.

However, the final consumer goods are not. In other words, a colony may only have the purchasing power of one such industrial system.

In reality, the industrial system surrounding it produces about two to three times the amount of end products it consumes.

Surplus production is usually stored as reserves to cope with future population explosions, and also to ensure that there are enough resources available in the event of another Star Wars – much like the mentality of a starving person who is afraid of being poor – which in turn makes the purchasing power of Star Dollars quite formidable.

This is also why Lao Xia believes that if the Terrans join the Covenant, it will not put social and economic pressure on the Covenant.

Without these massive military depots scattered throughout the galaxy, the merger of such a large population would have a devastating impact on the society's supply capacity.

If the living standards of Covenant citizens decline significantly as a result, conflicts and contradictions with Terrans will soon arise. If the Covenant does not want its citizens' living standards to decline too quickly, it will have no choice but to burn its reserves to ensure the living standards on Terrans without affecting the Covenant's own output distribution.

Conversely, this is also why Star Alliance Agriculture prefers the relatively troublesome method of farming over synthetic starch. Leaving aside the issue of whether the Soul Eaters can accept synthetic methods, the production capacity alone would cause the warehouses to burst on the spot—industrial production is not about making as many products as possible!

"I'll give you a general plan. Then, you can make minor adjustments based on the specific local conditions."

Old Xia thought about it and figured that if this kid were to manage such a large project on his own, he'd probably end up with eight factories crammed together in a terrible mess. "The planning knowledge and key points are all in there. You can learn as you go. That's how everyone's been through it..."

"Old Xia, have you done this before?"

"Yes, we planned it at the school's experimental field. The exam content was the design of an entire dairy industry chain, from raw milk production to the final dairy products at all levels. The requirement was that the utilization rate should reach 75%, which means that the waste caused by each level of the entire industry should be at most one-quarter. Back then, we really scrutinized every single point."

So, the horrific scene of the merging of eight factories last time was so bad that Old Xia was almost carried away on the spot. If his professor had seen it, he probably would have called the police.

"There's also the design of risk mitigation strategies at all levels. I've already prepared a reference plan for you, but don't just copy it verbatim." Old Xia passed over a new document. "By the way, the two graduate students assigned by the College of Agriculture can also come with you. They can learn something from them. The conditions here aren't as luxurious as they were back then, but we still have a ranch of about 100,000 mu."

Whether the two "graduate students" are now trembling with fear as they look at the research topics assigned to them by their supervisors by the academic affairs department is unknown.

"How luxurious were yours back then?"

"It's roughly... the size of the Terra continent, but it's divided according to various project groups and courses. There are artificial ecological environments, ranging from deserts to simulated oceans, and each individual experimental site is about 200 kilometers square." It includes experimental sites for everything from species breeding experiments to mini-industry planning.

Taking on a massive project involving the construction and planning of an entire agricultural and livestock industry chain right from the start almost made the two students burst out laughing. Even with their senior, who was the Minister of Agriculture, leading the team, they still looked like they were doomed when they got on the bus.

This involves basic dairy cow breeding, preparation and storage of forage and feed, and stable milk quality. If a stable quality and quantity of raw milk cannot be produced, all subsequent factories will fail. They realized from this one link that this was a completely different concept from the "child's play" they learned in school.

Then there's the storage, transportation, and sterilization of raw milk; the design and debugging of processing equipment; the manufacturing and maintenance of various livestock equipment, and so on—many parts of which are even beyond their academic majors. Of course, once they actually get to do all that work… these two could probably start their own courses and teach students.

What's even more alarming is the complete industrial system encompassing meat, eggs, and dairy products. This means establishing large-scale farms, breeding bases, feed mills, warehouses, logistics, freezing, and slaughtering chains in the local area, transforming various livestock products into marketable products such as milk, milk candy, milk powder, dried eggs, egg whites, salted eggs, fresh eggs, canned meat, and smoked products in the shortest possible time.

We also need to allocate these resources based on production capacity, specifying how much meat will be used for curing and how much will be kept fresh. This means we also need to consider local consumption habits, market size, market purchasing power, the distance between sales points and production points, transportation, and so on.

Every student felt that if things went well, they could get rid of the local deputy mayor in charge of the economy after graduation. This would be a political achievement that could support at least a million people. Would it be appropriate for him not to step down?

Of course, this job was also meant to boost Yelena's qualifications. Compared to her achievements on the battlefield, her accomplishments in the agricultural sector were too few. Almost all the work was done by Lao Xia, which was not good. At the same time, it also cultivated her to look at the planning and development of agriculture and agricultural industry from a higher perspective and in a higher way, which is different from farming in the fields.

[PS]

On a side note, and just to playfully tease each other, I'd like to recommend a block game similar to Minecraft and Space Engineers called "From the Deep".

There are thousands of parts and blocks that can be used to build all kinds of tanks, spaceships, surface ships, airplanes and submarines.

Furthermore, it offers an extremely high degree of freedom, even surpassing the capabilities of Space Engineers. The latter's engine weapons are, in any case, a complete module, allowing you to adjust their size and change their type.

Overall, however, the fire control, power supply, operation, and weapon itself are all well-designed modules.

However, this game... consists entirely of individual components.

By "piecework," I mean that I spent an afternoon building a Somali-style boat, following the step-by-step instructions in the tutorial.

Why does it take so long?

Because they are individual parts, for example, the engine... other people's engines are just a single module that you just throw there and that's it, as well as the hyperspace fuel tank and the hyperspace transmission.

This engine... I saw the first-level subpage for the fuel engine, which includes the generator, combustion chamber, cylinder, carburetor, turbocharger, etc., and the turbocharger has a second-level subpage.

As for the four-level subpage, which is the automatic control module such as AI-detector-rangefinder-laser rangefinder, I was completely baffled. I successfully made a naval gun by following the tutorial, but I still don't understand why it was placed there.

The motion control system can perform up to three levels of sequential start-up, including the terrifying operation of starting the engine on each axle.

A laser cannon is broken down into components, from the lens to the resonant cavity, and can be further subdivided. [The same applies to magnetic rails and other parts; basically, if you can build one, you can also assemble an identical cannon in real life...]

As for the engine, I glanced at the steam power and immediately decided I didn't want to work on it.

Because a steam engine includes: a boiler, a steam turbine, a pressure relief valve, a pressure reducing valve, a reduction gearbox, and a crankshaft, I didn't dare to open any further sub-pages.

Even using the preset modules the whole time, I couldn't get anything together... How do those big shots who build missile destroyers manage to do it?

However, the degree of freedom is truly high, because it can be disassembled into individual parts. Therefore, almost every parameter, from weapons to power, is adjustable.

Missiles can even define their own guidance methods, launch methods, IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) indices, and so on. However, it's best not to handle missiles at all.

Because the radar information in the game is very complex, your visible information is divided into five parts: visual, radar, active sonar, passive sonar, and radio signal. These are independent and have their own independent range and sensing shape (three-dimensional shape). Therefore, if you are making missiles, you may actually encounter a stealth destroyer that a master can't lock onto.

Ah, even EMP and anti-EMP surge protection modules are individual components. Oh, AI and electronic devices are also individual components. What I mean is, you need to build your own AI host in the game using components and logic elements such as memory, transmission lines, and motherboards. As for the control logic, please write it yourself.

There's no ready-made one-click radar, so please design your own radar... I've already given up on this game, so you can go and experience what it's like for Terrans to watch Old Xia's game.

The game is called From the Depths

Chapter 84 Redundant Production

Chapter 84

In the occupied territories, the purges and reorganizations by the decision-makers did not affect the newly occupied cities on the front lines. For these people, national affairs were generally irrelevant to them.

After all, there has never been a unified Sarkaz nation, nor a unified country called Kazdel.

For these locals, the changing of the guard on the city walls was a common occurrence, and this was also true even within the Northern Army. They mostly fought to protect their own livelihoods, and almost none fought for their nation or country.

Of course, compared to those in the South who fought for money or were forced to fight at bayonet point, it was already quite good. It was roughly like the difference between American and Japanese soldiers during World War II.

While the former, as an immigrant nation, may lack cohesion, they can still fight to maintain their American Dream, their comfortable lives, and their families back home, and they are more determined and courageous than the Japanese on the other side.

However, this remains a huge flaw: once the economic benefits and growth rate are exhausted and a period of stagnation begins, and in the future, when at least half of the GDP has to be spent on the aerospace industry in order to avoid major events such as solar helium flashes, resulting in a nationwide or even global economic contraction, these military forces will immediately enter a state of stagnation.

Just like the difference between the US military in World War II and the modern US military, if the former were equipped with the latter's weapons, training and combat system, it could probably crush the latter to death.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to find a common narrative for everyone under our rule, so that their self-identity is no longer a bunch of scattered categories such as infected, occupying force, ordinary people, nobles, foremen, etc.

Instead, they share a common identity, so that when the inevitable Soviet-style economic austerity due to the focus on heavy and aerospace industries comes in the future, they can be expected to endure it for a sufficiently long time.

The vehicle slowly drove into the checkpoint in the occupied city. Because it was marked with the Ministry of Agriculture's insignia, the sentries guarding the slope only did a simple check before letting it pass.

In contrast, the requirements are much stricter for those who are queuing up in long lines to enter the city to find work.

On the one hand, it is to prevent saboteurs from infiltrating the city, and on the other hand, it is to deliberately reduce the speed of entry into the city in order to alleviate the city's load pressure.

"Senior, what should we do first?"

"First, find the local commander and ask him to send people to escort our supplies. Then, we'll entrust him with recruiting refugees and workers," Yelena said after thinking for a moment. "Then, we'll transfer some agricultural officials and prisoners of war over here. We'll then check on the pastures, even though they report that the grass there has already been planted and is sprouting. But it's still better to check it out first. Do you remember the details of the pasture planting system?"

"I remember I even wrote a paper on this topic..."

“That’s good,” Yelena nodded. “Next, we need to determine the unit protein content, average protein content, unit pasture load limit, and stable load of the forage grass, then plan the number of herds, and then notify Mephisto to start breeding. The time requirement is quite strict. As soon as his cattle come out, the forage grass here should be about ready for fixed grazing.”

"Do we also need to check the microorganisms and soil conditions?" The two junior students glanced at the checklist they received. "This is a huge undertaking, and we can't possibly manage it all by ourselves..."

"Don't worry, you only need to oversee the soil testing and microbial testing; the specific work will be handled by other people." Having a senior alumna who's a top official in the Ministry of Agriculture, she certainly handles these large projects with ease.

They can mobilize resources just like that; otherwise, relying on just the two of them, they wouldn't even know who to ask for assistance, and even if they did find someone, it would be hard to say whether that person would be willing to cooperate.

However, Yelena's situation is a different story. Although she no longer commands the Yeti Squad, the difference between not commanding and being unable to contact them is significant. Who would dare to disobey her?

"Mephisto? Isn't he in the propaganda and culture department?"

"I'll also temporarily take over the breeding department, since we can't find a more suitable person right now. The person originally scheduled for that position, Miss Doumiao, has gone for further training."

"Senior Sister Doumiao, I saw her before. She seemed to be studying with some professors..."

"You're wrong. She's not studying with the professor; she's studying with them. They're classmates. You know, it's Old Xia's course." He instantly understood and showed a look of shared sorrow.

"Don't be so discouraged. She's just taking advanced courses, while you're majoring in advanced courses and have learned more than she has."

"Uh..." Senior, what we meant wasn't that there wasn't enough learning content or that the tutor didn't personally offer any feedback; it was the other way around!