Arknights? Colonization Ark!

They couldn't get those medicines through normal channels on the snowfield, and could only get a little bit from the garrison quartermasters at extremely high prices.

If the price Lexington offered was too high, she would rather bear the pain.

"Because it is the initial construction period, the relevant expenses will be recorded in the account, and the medical examination is free. The subsequent treatment costs will be deducted from your salary every month according to 5%. If you do not commit a large number of violations every month and the fines are not in arrears, there should be no problem."

Deduct it from your salary!

“Do we still have a salary?”

"............" Yelena's words made Lexington completely confused.

"Everyone who works normally will be paid. The working hours are five days a week, and the daily working hours are seven hours from 8 am to 4 pm, with a one-hour lunch break and a dinner break until 6:30. Then everyone has to take two and a half hours of night school."

Their current work efficiency is irrelevant to Zhang Miao. Those low-end repetitive labors are meaningless in his opinion. The only reason for their existence now is to give these people something to do. Once they have learned enough knowledge through night school, they will directly move up to high-end manufacturing, and so on.

Idle production lines or farmlands will be converted to fully automatic production.

In the Federation, there are also many people who are bored and would apply to work in factories to waste some time. These people are called vampires by factory managers.

Because they could not reject the other party's application, they had to free up an automated production line for these people to work.

As we all know, the efficiency of a production line is often determined by the least efficient link. The low efficiency of these people who have no sense of urgency and have not even received a long period of work training can be imagined.

The salaries of factory managers are linked to production efficiency, and the existence of these people seriously affects their income, so every manager hates them very much.

Overtime? I’ll overwork your mother! Get off my back!

My limited edition racing car will be delayed another month because of you idiots!

But for people like Yelena who have worked in the mines, these working hours are basically equivalent to vacation.

I just don’t know if there will be supervisors whipping them, and I don’t know what their jobs are.

"The next thing we want to talk about is night school. Night school is something that every person who is able to work must attend. If someone refuses to attend night school for a long time without a reason, their residency will be revoked. If they pass the night school assessment every year, their tax payment will be reduced by 0.5%. If more than three people in the family pass the assessment, the tax will be reduced by another 0.5%, up to a maximum of 10%. However, if they fail for three consecutive years, all previous tax exemptions will be cancelled and they will continue to pay taxes according to the original plan."

"In addition, every child under the age of sixteen is prohibited from participating in labor and must study in school until they have completed all the subjects. Whether to continue with in-depth studies is up to them, and they do not need to pay any fees for all the studies during this period."

All basic textbooks have been compiled by Lexington, and the depth of subsequent teaching content will depend on the learning ability of the Terrans and will change flexibly.

Given the physical fitness of these people, it’s impossible that their muscles have grown into their brains, right?

They are also a group of observation samples, mainly used to test the physical indicators and intelligence of local people to facilitate the design of future expansion plans.

After all, there are some things that machines can never measure.

For example, XP system.

Chapter 48: City in the Snowfield

As the first batch of residents, they actually enjoy great welfare policies.

For example, they are now citizens, but subsequent personnel can only have labor residence rights at the beginning. They must undergo systematic basic education and labor before they will be reviewed by Lexington and granted citizenship.

The review is conducted every three months, with two chances a year. If you fail, you will have to wait until next year.

The review criteria are complex and varied, and it all depends on their usual performance. Work ability and learning ability are secondary.

There are many similar things, and I cannot finish talking about them all in a short time. I can only continue to hand them over to Tallulah and the others later.

Lexington simply let them go in, lighten their supplies and prepare to welcome the incoming immigrants.

Except for Petrova, who was still in sustainable collapse, and Yelena who stood still, everyone else followed her instructions and went to the warehouse with the closed door.

After the warehouse door's access control system confirmed with the bracelets they were wearing, the door slowly opened, revealing the various supplies piled up inside, which had already been distributed. At that time, only one bag per person would be enough.

But Yelena looked at Lexington strangely.

"Why don't I see Zhang Miao? Isn't he with you?"

"He has something to do and can't come over for the time being, so I have to help you complete this mission."

Lexington was somewhat unhappy that someone just pulled up his pants and ran away after finishing the job.

In his words, one cannot indulge in the gentleness of life because there are still things to do.

Since the power was restored, he has been either busy or on his way to be busy. He has never stopped for a moment. He tries his best to use a lot of work to fill up his thinking time so that he doesn't have to think about other things.

I felt a little relaxed when I was with Lexington, but I was gone again immediately, like a motor with a wound spring that kept turning.

"If you have anything to say, you can go find him when he comes back. Now I will show you these buildings and areas."

The current city construction has just built a community, which is more than enough to accommodate more than 6,000 people. It has a community hospital, schools, sports and entertainment venues, and most importantly, a movie theater.

In the same environment, at the same time, and under the same conditions, the leaves that grow are different, let alone a civilization?

No matter how hard Zhang Miao tried, Terra would only be Terra, and not the place where he had lived in the past.

He can only use the entertainment and cultural industries he brought to export culture to these people.

Movies, TV shows, games, novels, books, and all kinds of future products are the dimensionality reduction attack of advanced culture on backward culture. Especially for those who have been oppressed by the original social environment for many years, after seeing these things, they will inevitably have a great yearning for the world depicted in those works, and gradually move closer to the other side from behavior to thought.

But this also requires gradual restraint, control and openness, because what they yearn for is the perfect world drawn in their own minds, which may be completely opposite to the reality, thus leading to a detour. If it is not controlled, it may lead to a deformed society where the result is not good enough but poor quality.

It can be said that this is an extremely long task, and the empire's society can only be said to be beautiful, but not necessarily correct, otherwise there would not be the closed-door policy, technological regression, and the control center would rely entirely on drones for maintenance, and even the technical data from the archives could not be exported.

These things are not only guides for Terra's future growth, but also wrong examples. They still have enough time to think and make choices along the way.

Moreover, the technology that Zhang Miao brought has its limits after all. For more things, he can only rely on his own strength to move forward.

......

The current residential area covers an area of ​​only a dozen square kilometers. All buildings are made of the same material. The carbon fiber composite board is coated with a layer of supramolecular metal film, which can ensure that it can recover by itself under low-intensity wear by relying on the dynamic self-healing property of the metal ligand bonds in the metal layer. In addition, this supramolecular film also has shape memory function, and can be used for thousands of years under normal circumstances without deformation or damage.

Under the residential area is a 60-kilometer-deep tunnel dug by mechanical worms. This tunnel is not used for mining, but for generating electricity using temperature differences at a high temperature of one thousand degrees Celsius, which is then supplied to the city above for heating and civilian industrial electricity.

Zhang Miao also planned to use the geothermal energy to artificially charge the collected source stone dust. Otherwise, he couldn't be like those people who had to dig again after using it up, right?

Since it is a sustainable energy, we should make good use of it.

This saves the trouble of looking for source stone mines everywhere, and is also environmentally friendly, so it can be said to be the best of both worlds.

The factories under construction are all small production lines, mainly producing building aggregate panels and some light industrial products. These factories can absorb a large number of people, not to mention the future heavy industry, smelting, military industry, and large-scale equipment manufacturing. Without exception, they are all powerful tools for attracting population.

There are also large greenhouses built in large areas. The soil inside has been disinfected and fertilized, and combined with various genetically modified crops and fertilizers, a steady output of crops can be guaranteed.

As for animal husbandry, it is a bit troublesome. We can only wait for Zhang Miao to artificially produce some deuterium and tritium in the laboratory and rebuild a fusion reactor to supply electricity to the city, so as to ensure the operation of these electricity-consuming industries.

As time passed, trucks carrying the displaced people finally appeared on the top of the hill and arrived at their future settlement.

When people saw the city, their original doubts about Tallulah and the others disappeared in an instant, leaving only shock on their faces.

They stretched their necks, trying their best to imprint everything before their eyes in their minds.

This is not a dream! This is real!

There really is a city being built here that is willing to accept them!

Accept these infected people who have been abandoned by mainstream society.

The previous half-belief and half-doubt turned into tears of joy at this moment. Hot tears flowed from their eyes and they hugged tightly with people around them, both known and unknown.

The true feelings and emotions that had been suppressed for a long time were suddenly released, causing many people to lose control of their emotions and simply sit on the floor of the carriage and cry loudly.

It was like being kicked into the abyss, crawling and rolling in the endless darkness, dying, and then seeing a shining lighthouse.

Maybe compared to those mobile cities, it is not big, just a small piece, but it is enough. Even a small shelter is better than freezing in a wooden house in the snow.

Chapter 49: Past Rebellion

The convoy stopped at the preset location, and people of all kinds jumped down from the open railings at the back of the carriages.

They all came from different villages, and in this strange place they had just arrived, they quickly formed groups of varying sizes. Being with familiar people gave them a sense of security.

The children clung closely to the adults, looking around at the new and interesting sights with curious eyes.

Some of them have never seen a city since they can remember, and have only heard about its prosperity from their elders.

But what they saw before them was completely different from what they had heard before. There were no noisy crowds and bustling markets, no Ursus patrols on tall horses, no passing convoys and high-ranking nobles.

The somewhat nervous crowd, led by a dozen snow monsters who came out to greet them, gradually moved towards the city.

They were the first group of residents from the two villages closest to the direction of the Ursus army's advance.

Tallulah did not come with them because there were still many gathering places waiting for her to call for migration. However, the girl named Alina volunteered to follow the first group of people.

No matter how Tallulah tried to persuade her, she blocked her advice by saying that the children would feel at ease when they saw her around.

This girl in simple clothes exudes a gentle aura. She moves among the crowd, comforting the somewhat uneasy children. Her presence seems to have some kind of soothing magic that can gradually dissipate the tension of the people around her.

The people moving forward looked at the buildings of unknown material and purpose beside the street with curious eyes. They were neither made of bricks nor cement, and even the joints were invisible. The whole building seemed to be an integrated whole. Moreover, after entering the city, the temperature rose suddenly, causing them to release their hands that had been tucked into their sleeves and hold the hands of their loved ones beside them.

Suddenly, the crowd in front stopped, leaving the people behind unable to react for a moment. The collision and squeezing of the crowd also caused some chaos, but after the explanation from the Yeti who was maintaining order, they realized that they had arrived at their destination.

In the community square, the crowds lined up under the command of the snow monsters received their own bracelets and supplies under the distribution of Yelena, and as time went by, more convoys were arriving.

......

On the other side, the Ursus army was also approaching the originally planned gathering place of the infected.

The reason why Kampf ignored these infected people in the past was simply because he had no interest in them.

Even if they were all killed, not a drop of oil would be produced, and even if they were taken away to mine, not a single drop of oil would be shared with him.

Moreover, a rash attack might lead to the guerrillas led by the "Patriots" on the ice field.

It's not that you are afraid of thieves stealing, but you are afraid of thieves thinking about it. He didn't want to be sent to see the late emperor by the legendary Ursus hero that day without paying attention.

He had heard of the other side's battle record, such as the Silver Spear Pegasus and the Steam Knights, which were top-level combat forces that were like gods in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, but were paper tigers in front of the Patriots. Kampf suspected that even a frigate might not be able to withstand the Patriots' attack.

However, the current situation forces us to pick on the weak rather than confront the patriots directly. It is the same thing to take these infected people back to get back to our work.

After all, those nobles had never seen the attackers.

Kampf sat in the passenger seat of a military jeep, lit a cigar and took a deep puff.

He thought to himself that after finishing this order, he would give his share directly to his superior and say a few good words to try to get transferred out of this damn place.

Then you won’t have to worry about retaliation from patriots.

"Sir, do we need to be so afraid of those guys?"

Kampf was dragged back to reality from his fantasy by a word from his adjutant who was driving. He replied angrily:

"You know shit."

Of course he knew that the other party was not talking about patriots, but the nobles hiding in the mobile cities.

If they were put together, he would naturally ignore each other.

However, after Ursus was defeated in the Blood Peak War, the old nobles were squeezed out of the central political circle, and the rising star among them, General Hellagur, also disappeared because of the new nobles' exclusion and trial.

The new emperor also took advantage of the failure of this war to reshuffle the cards. He no longer wanted to rely on war to plunder wealth like his father did, but wanted to boost the economy by vigorously developing source stone industry and commerce.

The problem between the two directly led to the lower-class people who could originally survive being forced into a dead end.

The new nobles wanted to vigorously develop the Originium industry, which would give birth to more infected people. More infected people meant higher management costs. A large number of infected people and those who sympathized with them began to march because they could not stand the low social treatment of the infected people. As the number of people gradually increased and with the promotion of some people with ulterior motives, the march gradually turned into a riot.

Eventually, with the interference of various forces, a rebellion broke out.

The old aristocracy wanted to regain core power through this riot, while the emperor and the new aristocracy wanted to completely wipe out the old aristocracy through this rebellion.

The final result was obvious: they lost, were driven out of the political circle, and even lost one of their own armies.

The biggest losers among them were the infected people who were used as cannon fodder and fuse, including even Grovazil, the son of a patriot, and a large number of new young officers.

Most of them lost their lives, and even those who had opposed the war in the past were liquidated one by one and sent to the mines. Yelena's family was a typical victim.

This rebellion also affected the lives of those who were originally neutral. Ordinary people began to exclude the infected. In addition, the new nobles and politicians needed to expand their own interests, and the emperor needed to shift domestic focus to maintain his rule. Ursus' policy towards the infected became extremely cruel. Even if the emperor wanted to change the treatment of the infected later, it was difficult to reverse the situation and faced many obstacles.

As a result, the military nobles were at a great disadvantage and never recovered.

So even if Kampf had a regiment of troops in his hands, there was no way for him to be tough in front of the mayor.

However, as a major, his sense of smell is still very sensitive.

A few years ago, Grand Duke Kosice was assassinated and his property was divided up. This gave the old nobles, who were already almost unable to bear it, the capital to delay.

But he could feel that an invisible blizzard was brewing, and those big shots must be planning something.

Maybe he is preparing to start another rebellion, or maybe he is preparing to go to war with another country.

What he needs to do is to find a good position when the war comes and see if he can get a share of the spoils, instead of standing in the snowy field facing the cold wind.