Centennial Plan

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It can be said that warships without magnetic field shielding systems simply cannot remain unharmed within the Magnetic Shield range of the Lake-Class Warship.

It is precisely because of the magnetization phenomenon of the strong magnetic field that the Lake-Class Warship is like a king with his own Conqueror's Haki. When dealing with small captains who are like moths, he doesn't even need to fire his cannons. As long as he activates his shields, the small warships will lose their fighting power as if they were Conqueror's Haki.

After all tests on the Dongting Warship were completed, the New Humans finally entered the large-scale shipbuilding phase. For the new fleet, the New Humans' design and Manufacturing Department jointly proposed a Centennial Plan.

After being approved by Yue Yuan, the plan was officially implemented.

The first phase of the plan is to expand the Space Dock used to build the Lake-Class Warship from one to fifty over a period of fifty years, at an average rate of one Space Dock per year.

Having learned from the construction experience of the Dongting Warship, the New Humans roughly knew the construction cycle of the Lake-Class Warship under sufficient resources. It was roughly one Lake-Class Warship could be built every two and a half years from each shipyard.

The second phase involved starting construction simultaneously in fifty shipyards, aiming to build one thousand Lake-Class Warship over the next fifty years.

After becoming Level 2 Civilization, with the current level of human computer technology, a Lake-Class Warship would require approximately 5,000 crew members. A thousand warships would require 5 million crew members.

This number has already exceeded the human population eighty years ago.

However, the human population is already around ten million, and in another hundred years, it will be no problem to break through from ten million to fifty million.

Recruiting five million people from fifty million to become soldiers is not a problem at all under the military and political system of the New Humans.

Of course, the pressure is only in the next hundred years. After that, the population of the New Humans will steadily increase. Once it reaches hundreds of millions, the population problem that limits the size of the fleet will no longer be a problem.

As long as the environment is relatively stable and they are not sailing far away in a deep hibernation, the population will inevitably increase.

That said, in this Centennial Plan, the New Humans are not only going to build warships, but also other types of spaceships.

After all, with a larger population, it's essential to ensure there's a place for people to live, since humans don't intend to build ground Base Chief on this desolate planet and settle down permanently.

This requires more and larger Residential Spaceship, and to have more spaceships, we need a faster rate of resource extraction, which requires more spaceships of various engineering equipment.

One link leads to another, and the scale of all kinds of spaceships of humankind will experience explosive growth in the next century.

In the Centennial Plan, Human Civilization will also delve into various derivative technologies of Level 2 Civilization and then apply them to all areas of society.

These are just a few examples.

It can be said that once this Centennial Plan is completed, humanity will truly become a mature Level 2 Civilization.

Of course, in addition to large-scale engineering and industrial projects, humanity also needs to carry out a series of internal reforms.

The first step is to implement a series of reforms in the New Government in order to alleviate some of the class stratification problems caused by military rule.

Military rule doesn't pose many problems when there are few people, but when there are many people, many contradictions that were temporarily suppressed by the leader's prestige will gradually emerge.

For example, class stratification.

Of course, class stratification is not unique to military and political systems; it exists in any system as long as humans live long enough and remain in a certain position for a long enough.

The best solution to this problem is naturally a term-based responsibility system. However, in the interstellar era, a term-based system will also create another problem: the conflict between the frequent changes of leaders and the long pace of interstellar life.

Just as a person in charge may only serve a twenty-year term, but the plans they are responsible for may last for a hundred or several hundred years, and Human Civilization often travel for hundreds of years.

This will cause unnecessary internal friction.

Therefore, Yue Yuan would absolutely not allow that kind of American-style democracy to even sprout in the New Humans. Of course, in reality, Yue Yuan didn't have much concern about this at all, because the New Humans' upbringing and education system had already made them take the current system for granted.

However, it is also necessary to appropriately ease policy pressure on the public.

In fact, regardless of the system, as long as it doesn't spend all day idly messing around with civil matters and frequently flaunting its power to the public and assert its presence, it's all the same to ordinary people.

Moreover, the reforms led by Yue Yuan's New Government were naturally not intended to allow others to overthrow him. His ultimate goal in doing so was to bring out the technology-based governance philosophy that he had long wanted to implement.

The so-called "governance through technology" does not mean that scientists should become high-ranking leaders or be immersed in bureaucracy all day long. Theoretical scientists are still theoretical scientists, only with a higher status and a more lofty spiritual symbol in society.

This will help human society form a concept of scientific supremacy, which will enable Human Civilization to move towards a higher level of civilization more quickly.

Of course, some specific measures are still needed.

For example, the methods for selecting talent need to be changed.

In the concept of governing through technology, decision-makers are selected based on their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly in science or technology. This system differs significantly from the democratic ideal that elected representatives should be the primary decision-makers in the New Government.

Of course, this does not mean eliminating all elected representatives; they can still be treated differently in other areas that do not involve science and technology.

In this philosophy, decision-makers' leadership abilities are selected based on professional knowledge and performance, rather than on political background or meeting skills.

Yue Yuan decided that in the near future, he and other experts would work together to develop a feasible system in this area.

Admittedly, this change will weaken his dictatorial power to appoint whomever he wants to hold that position. However, such power is neither necessary nor reasonable. Therefore, after humanity has transformed from a weak and sparsely populated civilization into a truly populous one, change is necessary.

Otherwise, not only will the expansion of power hinder human scientific progress.

What he wanted was not absolute dictatorship, but enlightened dictatorship.

This system of technical officials, or technocrats, emerged as early as the 20th century and belongs to utopian socialism.

Of course, modern New Humans cannot simply copy previous theories; they can only formulate systems that align with the current state of human society and contribute to the development of scientific literacy based on this concept.

Time passed by in the process of proposing and completing one task after another.