Lying Flat Act

The next morning, Yue Yuan arrived early at the temporarily set up conference room. Because of the large number of attendees, this so-called conference room was actually the original base's third basement level hall.

After re-opening the passage back to the surface, many machines and equipment were slowly moved up, making the space empty, which was perfect for an expanded meeting venue.

In addition to experts from various fields and heads of various departments, outstanding representatives from various professions also joined this expanded meeting, so the number of people was several times larger than usual.

Yue Yuan glanced at the list of participants and found that the total number of attendees reached eight hundred and thirty-two, which was almost one percent of the base's total population.

After the dark mass of attendees entered and took their seats, Yue Yuan, as usual, pressed the microphone and spoke first.

"Today is the 181st day since our home was destroyed. During this period, we have experienced life and death, despair and hope, and all kinds of hardships. We are so resilient. I believe that we humans will definitely turn bad luck into good fortune..."

After a not-too-long opening speech, Yue Yuan began to introduce the main topic of the meeting.

"I believe everyone here knows the issue to be discussed and decided today, so I won't waste any words. Let's move on to the first item on the agenda, the leadership issue of our surviving humans.

The previous catastrophe tells us that in the face of the vast universe, we humans are really as small as plankton. Therefore, if we want to survive, we must determine this issue. Only in this way can we avoid being a disorganized mess and unite closely to survive."

After a speech, the meeting entered the substantive stage.

First of all, this meeting must clarify the leadership organization of all mankind. There is no doubt that it is the original Callisto government.

This was the consensus of everyone and was once again unanimously approved at the conference. This operation was not superfluous, but to illustrate the legitimacy and justice of the leadership's power.

After the legitimacy of the new government's legal principles was determined, the next step was to elect a supreme leader.

There was no doubt about this either. The decision to make Yue Yuan the supreme leader of the new government was also unanimously approved. No one was more suitable than him, and no one had more prestige than him.

As for Yue Yuan himself, he was willing to take on this important task and also needed this position.

He had never concealed this.

After this link, Yue Yuan came to the stage again to give a speech: "Thank you for your trust and affirmation in me. I will do my duty and live up to the heavy trust, and put the future of mankind first... Taking unity and progress as my mission, I will strive to contribute my meager strength to the survival, development, growth, and even the departure of mankind from the universe."

"I know that among you, there are many who trust and affirm me not from reason itself, but because you think I am the savior of the survivors, the savior of all mankind, but I want to tell you that there has never been a savior, and I am not one either. Because our ancestors have long told us with their actions that the savior of mankind is actually mankind itself, it is each and every one of us."

After Yue Yuan gave a speech similar to an inaugural declaration, the next step was to determine the heads of various departments and their functions.

There was no major change in this regard. The original administrative structure of Callisto was still used, but corresponding upgrades and adjustments were made to the names.

Roughly divided into the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and so on.

Of course, the Security Department was also indispensable, but now it was divided into two parts. One part became the Human Armed Forces Equipment Support Department, referred to as the Armed Forces Department. This department was relatively special. It was a purely military department and a special department directly under the Human Military Command.

Yue Yuan was the supreme commander of this department.

The other part was still called the Security Department.

In addition, some expansion and changes were made to the personnel of various departments, and corresponding modifications were made to the promotion channels.

After all the matters concerning the establishment of the new government were confirmed, the next item on the agenda, the major construction issue, should have been carried out immediately, but Yue Yuan put forward a decisive plan at this time.

He came to the stage again, scanned the participants, and said, "The conference is about to discuss issues related to major ground construction, but before that, I have a proposal that needs to be discussed by everyone. I have asked the staff to upload the content of the proposal to the conference file sharing platform, folder number 0876. You can first check the content inside and see if this proposal is feasible."

After speaking, Yue Yuan stood quietly on the stage, watching the eight hundred and thirty-two participants operate their mobile phones or other network devices in front of them, waiting for them to finish reading.

The content of the proposal was not long. After a while, most people knew the content of the decision.

It was also at this time that sparse discussions began to sound in the crowd.

"How can this work? Even slacking off and lying flat will be subject to legal sanctions? What kind of proposal is this?"

"Yes, this is too broad. Isn't this forced labor? And how to judge slacking off, lying flat, and dragging your feet? You can't just report someone if you see them slacking off a little, right?"

"I know this is a very special period, but I have never heard of putting punishment into legal clauses. I'm afraid it's not easy to do."

"That's right. It's easy to judge slacking off at work. There were also punishment plans based on the salary system before, but how do you calculate lying flat? Could it be that a person has to be punished if they want to be a salted fish?"

"Hey, look at you guys, you're all opposing it without thinking it through. I think lying flat should be written into the law. Now there are only more than 80,000 people. Why should you be able to lie flat and enjoy the homeland that I have worked so hard to build? There's no reason!"

"The principle is this principle. How can I not know the situation of mankind? But the problem is that it's difficult to do. I don't care anyway. I can't possibly lie flat. It is my honor and my responsibility to contribute to the cause of mankind, but among the more than 80,000 people, there will always be some who only want to enjoy and are unwilling to pay. They will definitely strongly oppose it."

As everyone discussed, Yue Yuan proposed adding a legal clause suggestion that conformed to the current situation.

The general content of this legal clause was to establish a set of punishment mechanisms for behaviors such as slacking off and lying flat, as well as a moral definition of such behaviors.

However, the specific clauses had not yet been clarified.

In a rustling discussion, Yue Yuan coughed lightly. After the venue became quiet again, he said, "Everyone, the formulation of relevant legal provisions on negative behaviors such as 'lying flat' is mainly because mankind has indeed reached the autumn of life and death, and our population is too small. In this case, the power of any individual is an invaluable existence."

"To unite all forces, we have to propose this seemingly unreasonable proposal, and I believe everyone understands this. In a society, one or two people being opportunistic is just a minor ailment, but as you all know, humans are not only creatures that love ease and hate work, but also creatures that worry not about scarcity but about inequality."