Doctor, I'm really strong!

"The significance is that the community proves to everyone that we are the people's heart."

Now Liu Jiuli is too lazy to play dirty tricks and is directly confronting the enemy with open strategies.

Limited by the realities of Terra, each country is unable to fully utilize its human resources, resulting in severe unemployment problems within each nation.

Originium Industries cannot provide a large number of jobs and requires skilled operators, which greatly limits the dissemination of technology. As a result, many people cannot enjoy the benefits of technological progress. The seemingly large population market actually has less than 10% of people who can consume Originium Industries products.

However, modern industries that can be widely adopted do not have this problem. No matter how advanced the technology is, the huge market can provide a huge number of jobs. A steel plant alone needs at least 50,000 workers. Even if the technology is upgraded, the demand for skilled workers will always be greater than ever. This is especially true in the manufacturing industry, which is seen as a black hole for labor. There are many basic jobs within the community. Everyone will be assigned a job as soon as they graduate. If you are not satisfied with your job, you can compete for other jobs. The assessment of state-owned factories is absolutely fair, open and just. If you can't get promoted, it's because you are not skilled enough.

Want to get internal privileges?

Then you'd better be careful. The internal affairs department might have a special envoy inside your company, but you definitely don't know who they are, and there might even be more than one or two. If you're discovered one day, you'll be their performance bonus for the year.

No matter what kind of job it is, you will strictly abide by the labor law and you will not need to worry about survival or personal development.

For those who are too lazy, there's a farm waiting for you; for those who want to cause trouble, there's the Siberian Gulag Hotel to entertain you, with guaranteed top-notch service.

The advantage of doing this is that the government can fully mobilize human resources and stimulate everyone's initiative, so that the country can move forward steadily step by step under the regulation of the super-planned economy.

However, the downside is that human resources are always insufficient. Because there are always various projects within the community that urge the proletariat to progress and learn, at least one-fifth of the workforce is always in various schools (mainly technical colleges and night schools), or doing on-site internships, or someone suddenly feels they are falling behind and seeks further education. Obviously, these off-duty positions need to be filled.

In a market economy, these jobs can simply be filled by hiring someone part-time, paying them an extra hundred or so yuan, and making one person do the work of two. Anyway, there are plenty of people who will do the work, so why bother with overtime pay? It's all voluntary!

However, in the community, such behavior would result in being summoned for questioning and fined to the point of death. Private companies would not do this, and state-owned enterprises, as the benchmark for the whole society, would certainly do so. Here, if you want three-shift production, you must have a corresponding production team for each of the three shifts. Overtime is not allowed except in special circumstances. If you want to work overtime, you have to apply for it, and only key personnel can work overtime. If your skills are not up to par, you are not qualified to work overtime.

With jobs, employment, and consumption, the population has become a positive cycle. It is neither a demographic dividend for gasoline consumption nor a utopia of keeping people as pets, but a social system with the healthy development of each individual as its core ideology.

Therefore, the community is not worried about not having jobs, but about not having enough people.

It takes at least sixteen years for a child to grow up from birth. The simplest way to quickly increase the population is through immigration, integrating those immigrants who pass the assessment into the community.

After so many years of experience, the community has accumulated sufficient experience in immigrant training and is not worried about the adaptation problems of immigrants after they arrive in their new homes. However, for those countries with net population outflow, with the gradual shortage of labor, the labor market will soon experience a situation of supply falling short of demand, and the proletariat will become the dominant force in the labor force.

At this point, countries will either have to resort to coercive measures or honestly make concessions to the proletariat. Either way, it will trigger violent turmoil within the country, especially in those countries where feudal remnants still exist. The powerful elites are unwilling to change, and any behavior that harms their interests will be met with a frenzied counterattack. Once they are half-dead from civil war, the community can happily go and harvest corn.

Is there a conspiracy?

No, from beginning to end, the community has made its intentions clear. We need population, so we welcome immigrants from other countries and have developed corresponding strategies. Everything is written down in black and white, honest and transparent. The people have voted with their feet. Please reflect on why you can't even resolve such a small matter.

It would be a miracle if they could solve it. The contradiction between large-scale socialized production and private ownership of the means of production is irreconcilable. Even if the nations of Terra take a big step forward, they will only have entered the stage of capitalist imperialism. If they could solve the fundamental contradictions of capitalism, they would no longer be capitalist countries.

All they can do is patch up their social system, but since it's just a patch, it certainly can't solve the root problem.

Back then, Li Hongzhang, the paperhanger, had already proven the ultimate result of patching things up.

Moreover, patching also carries risks; if you're not careful, you might accidentally block something that shouldn't be blocked, and that could lead to an even faster demise.

At first, only refugees from the border areas fled, and the Kazimierz authorities didn't pay much attention. But soon after, farmers from the local knights' territories came to work in the community, followed by workers, teachers, and scholars.

The people at the bottom of society have very simple thoughts. They come to the community to eat meat, thinking of it as a treat. But as they eat, some sharp-eyed people notice the job openings and go to the factory. They find that the wages are paid immediately, and they earn more than they would in their home countries. Their thinking begins to lean towards the community. After trust is established, they start receiving a monthly salary, which means they will settle down nearby and become ordinary people with a stable life.

Leningrad is an immigrant city that Liu Jiuli had prepared for them long ago. Like other immigrant cities, inclusiveness is its characteristic. Those who pass the test become citizens of the community, but even if you don't pass the test, as long as you are willing to abide by the law, you can live here as an ordinary person. Furthermore, children born here can be sent directly to the community's academy city for education and become citizens of the community.

Having experienced the beauty of the new society, they no longer wished to return to the old one, and even hoped that the community would immediately crush the old society's Kazimierz and liberate the oppressed people.

In contrast to these people, the more respectable scholars are more interested in the community itself. Their composition is also very diverse, with some being reformers, some being diehards, some being idealists, and some being simply curious.

After these people come to the community, there are generally three possible outcomes.

The first type is those who find their own country inferior to the community and simply give up and accept their fate.

The second option is to harbor even greater hatred for the community, return to the community, rally the old forces, and prepare to fight the community to the bitter end.

The third type believes that community is the future of humanity and resolutely betrays their original class.

Regardless of the type, it signifies the spread of the community's influence outwards. Anyone who wants to look can look; the community has nothing to hide. This is the confidence of the strong.

"By the way, how many meals have we gotten here for free?"

"Was it the seventh meal, or the eighth meal?"

"The guerrillas of Kazimir have fallen so low that they've come to Ursus to freeload off the heirs."

"If you know that, then don't say anything. Aren't you ashamed?"

"But it's really delicious, it smells so good."

"Never mind, I have no right to say anything."

This group of seemingly ordinary people, dressed relatively normally, were actually civilian guerrillas from Qazimir who stood up for the Qazimir authorities when they repeatedly yielded to the Ursus Empire.

They're like agents of the Strategic Homeland Security Bureau, who step forward when the nation falls apart.

Something seems off, but the historical reality is that Qazimir disintegrated, abandoning vast swathes of land. Only those unwilling to be enslaved by the Uzbek Empire remained, holding fast to their homeland and fighting the enemy day after day.

Then they were betrayed by the Qasimir authorities.

At the time, Kazimir had made peace with the Ursus Empire. The Ursus Empire disliked these guerrillas and demanded that Kazimir deal with the problem, otherwise peace talks were out of the question.

The following story is the Terra version of Wind and Waves Pavilion.

The civilian resistance forces in Kazimir suffered a heavy blow and lost their trust in the Kazimir government. However, the resistance continued, but without their excellent leaders, their minor skirmishes were no longer enough to affect the Ursus Empire.

Ultimately, it cannot threaten the attacks of those powerful figures; it is merely infighting within the proletariat.

On this issue, the Kazimierz guerrillas were not concerned with the state, but with class. The essence of this betrayal was that the Kazimierz bourgeoisie and the feudal lords of the Ursus Empire joined forces to suppress the rebellious civilian guerrillas.

The powerful and wealthy can compromise and negotiate; only class conflict can truly be a life-or-death struggle.

This is why, upon arriving, the community immediately began to establish mutually beneficial relationships with the local people, promote the community's core spirit, unite all forces that could be united, and identify true comrades to join the great cause of liberating all mankind.

Therefore, the community doesn't care who comes to eat; as long as they don't start fighting on the spot, everyone who comes is a guest.

Moreover, one is bound to be indebted to others for their food and gifts. After repeated visits, the guerrillas will inevitably feel embarrassed, even if they keep reminding themselves, "We are eating food from the Ursus people, and Ursus owes us." But you can't fool yourself. Over time, they will become interested in the community, start to make contact, and even learn about it. In the end, among these people, there will definitely be comrades who are willing to believe in the red cause.

From the moment they entered the free canteen, they subconsciously stopped regarding the community as an enemy.

The Forest Ranger was such a guerrilla fighter. Her code name came from the guerrilla organization she had fought against but was ultimately betrayed by the Qasimir regime. Her past experiences proved at every moment that she was a staunch rebel.

To the Forest Rangers, the Ursus Empire is an enemy, and everything associated with Ursus is bad.

Following a normal life trajectory, the forest ranger would struggle against the Ursus army in the guerrilla zone until he was killed.

But she once encountered a very special Ursus person.

This Ursus man was indeed from the Ursus Empire, but he was very interested in the knighthood system of Kazimierz. However, because he was Ursus, he was arrested as expected after entering the guerrilla zone.

The Ursus woman was supposed to be executed, but the Ranger's teammates stopped her.

"If we do that, how are we any different from the brutal Ursus people?"

What followed was even more astonishing.

"Hello, my name is Rossoff, and I am a scholar who went to Kazimierz to study the knights. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Naturally, the forester did not accept this gesture of goodwill, but the three of them ended up together in the days that followed.

There was no other way; the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, and we couldn't leave even if we wanted to. We could only stick together for warmth.

During that time, the forest ranger had his first truly objective conversation with an Ursus man. Rossoff was completely unlike the savage, cruel, and bloodthirsty Ursus soldiers. He was a scholar with a romantic temperament, who loved chivalric literature and came from a minor noble family. Compared to those high-ranking imperial nobles, he was just an insignificant low-level nobody. The so-called noble privileges were nothing more than the fearful and respectful deference of the common people.

“They don’t respect me as a person, but rather my identity.”

"Using bloodlines to classify people into different ranks is really stupid."

"On the other side of the Ural Mountains, there is a newly established country called the Terra People's Community, which is a country governed by civilians."

Are you sure that country is governed by civilians?

"Yes, I'm quite sure, because I've been there. Oh, and I brought a book with me, but it's taboo in the Ursus Empire, so I had to carefully hide it on my person. This is it."

That was the first time the forest ranger began to pay attention to things outside of fighting, trying to understand a foreign country through a book.

Rossoff taught the forest ranger Ursus script and Chinese, barely overcoming his reading difficulties, because the contents of the book were so interesting (the community's cultural books often had realistic examples to illustrate the points, and there were many details to learn and refer to), and the three of them often studied it until very late.

The book is called "The Proletariat and Revolution," and its author is Yuren (Liu Jiuli's pen name).

Together they envisioned the future of Kazimir and the Ursus Empire, arguing about certain things and even disagreeing on the same path, but ultimately, these conflicts vanished amidst their laughter.

Unfortunately, that winter was exceptionally cold, and by the time spring arrived, only the forest ranger had left the forest.

The coldness of nature is often more deadly than the guns and cannons of the enemy.

Because of this connection, the forest ranger has kept a close eye on the community's news ever since, but it's a personal secret she's never shared with anyone. Now, fate has given her a chance to confront the community directly.

"Let me see what kind of country this is."

Chapter 347: Ship Girls × Machine Souls √

(I'm Liu Jiu, who still manages to update even when I'm working overtime. Please give me some votes to encourage me! (?ω?))

"Welcome, Mr. Yun Teng. I hope you are satisfied with the hospitality in Kazimierz."

"I believe you will not disappoint me in this regard."

Dressed in a suit and tie, Yun Teng walked into the top-tier hotel operated by the Kasimir Business Consortium. Today, the entire hotel was reserved for him alone.

As the external capital representative of the community, Yun Teng can now be said to be second only to one person and above thousands of others (only overseas). With a powerful backer, Yun Teng feels that his career has reached unprecedented heights, as if he can reach for the stars and the moon with a wave of his hand. In the face of powerful capital, even the Kazimierz Business Federation now has to bow and pay homage to him.

Because he sees himself as their benefactor, and he is here to invest in Kazimir.

Yes, it's capital export.

Abroad, he can unscrupulously spread the evils of capitalism, promoting the idea that 996 is a blessing and that business is the greatest charity.

It's up, my blood pressure is up, and my fists are hard.

However, you need to consider the location and era.

For the vast majority of Terrans, 996 is indeed a blessing. Currently, apart from the Community, no other country implements an eight-hour workday; they all start with 12 hours. In comparison, 996 is simply the embodiment of human justice and fairness.

This world needs capital, so I'm right!

Despite thinking this in his heart, Yun Teng dared not say it aloud.

He still remembers his first meeting with Liu Jiuli; the impression Liu left on him can only be described as terrifying.

If you try to change the social structure of the community, your own corpse will be hanging on a street lamp in People's Square and drifting in the wind tomorrow.

That was an enemy I simply couldn't defeat, not even if I fought desperately.

No, no, I can't work myself to the bone. How am I supposed to make money if I work myself to the bone?

Yun Teng put all of that behind him. He was here today to enjoy the pleasure of being a superior person. If the Business Federation wanted to get his investment, they would have to show enough sincerity.

A drunken man's face is flushed, and wealth stirs the heart. Yun Teng's status and wealth earned him the utmost respect. Whether they were socialites, businessmen, or politicians, they all showed him complete humility—a scene he had never dared to imagine before.