True Purpose

What would Zhou Ming's so-called "Medical Empire" look like?

An island.

He planned to spend a sum of money to first purchase, from the United Nations or some small island nation, a shallow-water area of 100,000 square kilometers in the Central Pacific.

Then he would invest another trillion, hire dozens of dredgers, reclaim land from the sea, and create a 10,000-square-kilometer island in the Central Pacific.

Then, upon that island, he would establish a Medical Empire serving patients across the world.

It would possess independent sovereignty and belong to no national government, effectively functioning as a separate country... its core pillar industry would naturally be medical services.

That way, Zhou Ming could bypass every restriction, freely make his mark in the medical field, and avoid constraints from every direction.

He could also avoid taxes, without having to hand over a substantial portion of his profits to the state and become someone working for it.

In short, regardless of what book or protagonist it was, once they reached this stage, the country generally became the ceiling limiting their development. To break free of those restraints and spread their wings, they had to establish a nation overseas, where the sky was wide enough to fly.

Why not immigrate to Mars and claim a planet for himself?

Some friends had suggested this.

For someone like Zhou Ming, the living conditions offered by a mere island—10,000 square kilometers and leadership over a million people—were simply far too shabby.

He had indeed considered immigrating to another planet.

But at Earth's current technological level, it would probably take another ten years to enter the Interstellar Age of Discovery.

And to colonize another world, they would have to find a planet similar to Earth, one with water and life, so that environmental transformation would be easier.

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