Doctor, I'm really strong!

However, the other person's expression was very polite.

"You must be Mr. Yun Teng."

"Yes, I am Yun Teng. Is there something you need?"

"The leader invites you."

In that instant, Yun Teng felt like he was about to float away.

He made the right bet, he bet right, and now a new era is dawning for him.

Yun Teng suppressed his excitement and nodded, saying, "Okay, I'll prepare first."

An hour later, the helicopter landed in the rebuilt Steelegrad Square, and Yun Teng was taken into an inconspicuous prefabricated house.

This was the first time Yun Teng had seen the leader in person. In a very, very shabby prefab house, apart from the piles of documents and office equipment around him, the most valuable thing in the room was that ergonomic chair.

Priced at 20000 Lungmen Dollars, it's one-tenth the price of my own genuine leather executive chair, and it's even a government-owned property.

The table looked like an antique that had been dug up from somewhere, and it was actually quite similar, except that it had been dug out of the ruins of Steel Grid. Liu Jiuli saw that it was still usable, so he simply dragged it over to use as his temporary office desk. Actually, one of the table legs was broken, but Liu Jiuli repaired it himself, so it looked as if it had never been broken, perfectly intact.

Anyway, this is all temporary, so there's not much to worry about; efficiency is the priority.

"Leader, the people have arrived."

Liu Jiuli, who was reviewing documents, looked up and said, "You've worked hard. Go and rest first."

"Yes!"

After the two Cheka officials left, only three people remained in the room: Liu Jiuli, Ling (who served as his confidential secretary), and Yun Teng.

At this moment, Yun Teng felt extremely nervous, his heart was about to jump out of his throat. Although the man in front of him looked very young, he was already the supreme leader of a powerful country. Not long ago, he led the newly established community to defeat the terrifying Eight-Nation Alliance and wiped out the most elite troops of Yan Kingdom. With a wave of his hand, he could cause millions of corpses to fall and rivers of blood to flow. Everything he had was as powerless as dust in front of him.

If history is made up of countless specks of dust, then Yun Teng feels as if the Five Finger Mountain of history is pressing down on him now.

"Yun Teng, right? Please have a seat. Is there anything you'd like to drink?"

Liu Jiuli's smile was like a spring breeze, but Yun Teng, who was nervous and excited, couldn't react at all. He first nodded subconsciously, then quickly shook his head, looking completely at a loss.

There was no way around it. Although Yun Teng was a successful businessman, before he made his fortune, he was just an ordinary person, a migrant worker from a farming family who came to the city. In his more than 30 years of life, even a township head was a high-ranking official he couldn't afford to offend, let alone a national leader.

According to the standards of the Yan Kingdom, Liu Jiuli was the emperor on horseback, the founding emperor, the true dragon emperor, and a powerful figure who could shake the world. If Yun Teng could meet him, he would have to kneel and kowtow three times and have mushroom clouds rise from his ancestral graves.

Seeing that Yun Teng was too nervous, Liu Jiuli decided to change the way he communicated, and then a hot pot was set up in the room.

Food is a great remedy for tension and awkwardness, especially hot pot made at home, which can easily bring people closer together.

"Don't be nervous. We're having hot pot today. Hot pot is a winter specialty that you have to try. We'll talk about your future development prospects and the business policies after the community is established, while we eat."

Chapter 246: Something's Wrong with This Shogunate

(Second update (～￣▽￣)～)

This hot pot meal was an absolute surprise for Yun Teng.

Because Liu Jiuli said he would open up some publicity and financial sectors to private capital for operation, and appropriately relax the investment environment to give them better room for development, this is much better than being tied up and forced to do whatever they wanted before.

So Yun Teng enjoyed the hotpot more and more, and in the end he was able to speak his mind freely. Liu Jiuli smiled throughout and said that he could talk about anything, and that you could even propose it to the representative meeting.

But when Yun Teng left, the smile on Liu Jiuli's face vanished completely.

Ling then walked over and asked, "What do you think of this Yun Teng?"

Liu Jiuli: "How about it? It's a standard street light fixture. If we give it a chance, the real estate market will have shared area and pre-sales tomorrow."

Ling blinked and asked, "What do you mean?"

Liu Jiuli: "If this were in the Yan Kingdom, it would be deceiving the emperor above and destroying the lives of the people below."

Ling was stunned: "Why keep someone like this around for the New Year?"

Liu Jiuli: "I don't think the New Year will be easy for them."

Ling rolled her eyes: "Don't interrupt. Are you really planning to relax some capital controls?"

Liu Jiuli: "That's true."

Ling: "You know very well what this means, don't you?"

Liu Jiuli picked up his milk tea and took a sip: "Just watch, all sorts of outrageous things will come out then."

Ling: "Then why did you do it?"

Liu Jiuli smiled slightly: "If we don't give them the opportunity to cause trouble, how can the people see their true colors?"

Ling: "So you're raising poisonous insects?"

Liu Jiuli: "This is called 'no rainbow without rain.'"

Liu Jiuli knew perfectly well what would happen after capital was liberalized, but now that he held great power, with guns, money, and pens in his hands, he would take this opportunity to let those demons and monsters who wanted to come out cause trouble. When the people of the whole country were angrily denouncing them as deserving to die, he could then take action. This was called following the will of the people.

Furthermore, it is also necessary to let the public experience the harsh realities of capitalism. Darkness and light are contrasting. The older generation knows how hard-won their happy life is, but the younger generation does not. At this time, letting the whip of capital fall on them will make the younger generation understand why they should follow the path of communism. Only after experiencing the harsh realities will they understand the value of the protective umbrella.

Otherwise, if everyone becomes a pampered bourgeois who never lifts a finger, then it will be the Soviet revisionists who will smile at you.

Therefore, a large government should be like a father, both shielding the children from great harm and giving them ample room to grow. Only saplings that have endured wind and rain have the opportunity to grow into towering trees. Liu Jiuli does not want the future of the community to be supported by a group of fairies and handsome idols, as that would give him the urge to destroy the world.

On December 1, 1102, the first plenary session of the Community was held in Steelgrad.

This meeting officially established the national anthem, national flag, and national emblem, and also launched the first five-year plan, or more precisely, the first five-year plan after the establishment of the Community.

The plan mainly revolves around infrastructure development across the country, with plans to redevelop 17 mobile cities, build 22 new ones, and create 51 satellite cities. At the same time, several major mineral and production capacity indicators will be doubled. After the first five-year plan is completed, the community will become the first new industrial system nation in the history of Terra, with its total industrial output surpassing that of Yan Kingdom, making it the number one nation in Terra.

The idea is good, but the biggest problem is population. Expecting 15 million people to support Terra's number one industrial system is as unrealistic as Su Xunzong disliking medals. Therefore, immigration is the key next step.

Coincidentally, the supporting work has already begun.

Along the community's borders, numerous commercial and trading cities have been established, and they have begun to engage in business with neighboring countries.

Since it's a business transaction, it's only natural for them to work for each other. If they find the community appealing, it's perfectly normal for them to come and settle down. Population movement knows no borders, and people have the right to vote with their feet for a better life; this is a fundamental human right.

The community had no objection to this, but other countries were upset.

Especially in the Eastern Kingdom, as a peripheral country, the local economy was originally based on a feudal serf system. In recent years, it has carried out reforms, but the problem is that the Eastern Kingdom only has two neighboring countries.

Previously it was the Ursus Empire and the Yan Kingdom; now it's the Community and the Yan Kingdom.

Needless to say, Yan Kingdom basically doesn't need to trade with Dong Kingdom. On the contrary, Dong Kingdom often imports massive amounts of goods from Yan Kingdom. During the Ursus Empire era, what could that harsh and cold land in the Far East have? Whether Dong Kingdom was selling to others or buying from others, it basically had no choice.

Now that the community has arrived, there are choices and goods are more abundant, but the problem of local people fleeing their homes is getting more and more serious. Many people have gone directly to the community and become its citizens, causing a lot of land to be abandoned. The daimyo and samurai of the eastern country are furious.

But what can you do? Do you dare to provoke the community that defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance?

It's likely that someone's big trick has turned Dongguo from a real country into a historical record.

Moreover, the community had already begun infiltrating the Eastern Kingdom during the Red Guard era. Now, in the border region where the Eastern Kingdom is adjacent to the community, the local grassroots officials are either members of the community, people related to the community, or people who agree with the community's ideology, or people who sympathize with the lower classes. They are basically turning a blind eye to the problem of farmers fleeing.

Once these people reach the community's territory, arresting them becomes a separate issue.

Liu Jiuli showed absolutely no leniency towards these foreigners. If you dare to violate my laws and regulations, I will deal with you according to our relevant regulations. If you have any objections, then go ahead and declare war. I will defend your dignity as a man with my blood.

Dongguo: I... how could I possibly dare?

Then don't blame the locals for running away. You can't even do it yourself, how can you expect the people to willingly be exploited and oppressed by you?

Just as the instructor said: "A good punch can prevent a hundred more."

Look at the countries around us, they're all as docile as quails, and the whole world has become incredibly wonderful.

This is reality: in international relations, strength is always the backing of diplomacy, dignity stands on the edge of a sword, truth lies within the range of the East Wind, and those who disagree are sent to see the sun.

"If the development of nuclear weapons could be accelerated... um? This is!"

Liu Jiuli, who was looking at immigration data, discovered some problems.

Although there are still many immigrants from the eastern country, it can be seen from the proportion that the majority are people from the southern shogunate of the eastern country, while the number of people who have broken away from the northern shogunate is decreasing.

Compared to the same period last year, the number of people has decreased by nearly two-thirds, and many people from the south have even moved to the north to make up for the local population loss.

Holy crap! This is unacceptable! Seeing more people on your side is even more disheartening than seeing fewer on mine. There must be something wrong here; we need to investigate.

After Liu Jiuli retrieved and summarized all the data, he discovered that this was not an isolated phenomenon, but rather a steady change that had been ongoing.

I haven't heard anything about the Northern Shogunate building something like the Berlin Wall lately, so why are there fewer immigrants?

There must be a deeper reason behind this, so Liu Jiuli directly summoned the person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Eastern Kingdom and asked what had happened in the Northern Shogunate of the Eastern Kingdom recently and why the number of immigrants in the area was decreasing.

"In fact, the Northern Shogunate of the Eastern Provinces has been carrying out agricultural reforms since the year before last."

Liu Jiuli nodded, but the reform itself was nothing special; the key was what was changed.

"What exactly was changed?"

"This is an official document from the Northern Shogunate."

Liu Jiuli took the document and flipped through it, then revealed a meaningful expression.

This northern shogunate in the east is quite interesting.

Section 247: Our Little Neighbor

(One more chapter to come, (～￣▽￣)～)

Just as external events were unfolding, Dongguo, a neighboring country of the community, was also undergoing a series of changes.

This is the impact of advanced forces on backward forces. Leaving aside the fact that the Community defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, its predecessor, the Red Guards, had already exerted a huge influence on the surrounding areas through economic power.

Some people think, "It's just selling some things, is it really that big of a deal?"

This is very true, because cheap goods, especially industrial products, impact the handicraft market. While it may seem like they are only taking away a portion of the market share, they are actually damaging another country's fiscal revenue and future industrial base.

The industrial level of the Eastern Kingdom is far inferior to that of its neighboring countries. However, in the past, among its neighboring countries, the industry of the Ursus Empire was concentrated in the west, and its main trading partner was the Yan Kingdom. The Yan Kingdom had little demand for the Eastern Kingdom and its main trading partners were the western countries of the Terra Continent. This reduced the competitive pressure faced by the Eastern Kingdom and gave its relatively backward production capacity room to survive.

But now, the flow has changed.

The Red Guards, which originated in the Far East, rapidly grew and eventually became the sovereign state of the Terra People's Community. Its industrial power was overwhelming in the surrounding areas, the only difference being whether it was a small, medium, or large millstone. However, the Eastern Country did not belong to any of these three categories; it was the super-large industrial millstone of the community.

They had no power to fight back. In addition, apart from the mobile cities, the borders of the surrounding areas of the Terran countries were relatively flexible. Physically and administratively, they were difficult to have the border customs of the countries on Earth. This allowed the Community's goods to enter unimpeded and easily crush the local handicrafts.

If that were all, it would be fine. Bankrupt farmers would move to cities, increasing the pressure on the entire country and ultimately driving social change, creating a positive feedback loop under negative pressure. This is a harbinger of social change, and in any case, it's progress.

The problem is that the Eastern Kingdom did not feel this pressure because the community was short of manpower for industrial development.

In addition, the community's strong productivity and advanced production technology gave Liu Jiuli ample resources to train untrained migrant workers, enabling them to grow into skilled workers and then settle down to contribute to the community.