037 Dai Weilin's Reforms

Secretary Pulin couldn't laugh at the joke at all; he said with concern:

"Your Excellency, the president of Alferral Energy has also been arrested. We have no senior personnel available at all."

"What do you mean by saying we don't have any high-level talent available? It means that Medvi has run out of high-level talent."

Dai Weilin was not surprised by the flight of elite oligarchs. He casually flipped open a roll of documents and pointed to the names on it. "Lin Li, Julie Yomack, Zelim Donshuya, Cook Doyle, Si Jia, Qi Hui —these people can only make money by following Medvi. Even if I don't take action now, they will take action against me in the future."

"But how did you know?"

"The reason is simple."

Dai Weilin said calmly:

"Because the resources of the Frostplate were not originally that scarce. It was by instigating gender antagonism, deliberately lowering the birth rate, and only absorbing women with higher education, thus excluding men, that they were able to maintain control over the resources at the top."

"They have betrayed the free market and the spirit of capitalist contracts, and have turned into a group of financial Landlords and compradors. I was studying this issue in prison. Medvi's rule over Frostplate was too long, which made me feel something was wrong. After carefully questioning the economic criminals, I found that it was indeed as I thought."

"But if things continue like this, without the oligarchs and tycoons, domestic conglomerates will collapse."

"I only killed the top leaders, do you know why?"

Dai Weilin turned his head and looked at the map on the wall. "The problem of Frostplate is deeply rooted. It cannot exist without eliminating discrimination. After today's incident, some people will definitely start to question our approach. However, in this way, attention will be diverted, and no one will care that Medvi's death is suspicious."

For the current Frostplate, this is nothing at all.

Dai Weilin stood up, looked at the unchanging, cold sun outside the window, and sighed:

"Philby, do you know? Before Frostplate, there were many oceans. The Gemini Palace where we are now was an island specializing in fishing in the Old Era."

"But every era will pass, and the heroes who defended the country in the previous era will become criminals who undermine unity in the eyes of the next generation."

"But territory doesn't lie, and neither does population."

Dai Weilin stretched out his hand, his fingertips slowly tracing the Frostplate border, demarcating each Colonies into the territory.

"Even if you leave them history, they won't learn from it. If you leave them weapons, they might ruin them. Even if you leave them vast wealth, they will squander it. But if you leave them territory and people..."

Dai Weilin's finger hovered above ' Grant Republic ' as he calmly said:

"—They will understand war, understand ethnicity, understand civilization, and they will continue to survive and reproduce."

"If I had to say what Li Aoz had taught me about space, it would be that he opened up a new understanding and a new perspective on the universe for me."

"Imagine a journey through the vast universe, spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years. What would you rely on to unite people's hearts? Religion? Ethnicity? Culture? Surely not? Gender? Surely people wouldn't still be practicing capitalism in space?"

Dai Weilin chuckled as he spoke, "The universe is too vast; all we need is to survive."

"As long as we survive, given the size of the universe, we will always have a chance to find a way out and a new home."

"As long as we survive, with our enormous numbers, we will always be able to produce a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times more great scientists, capitalists, extraordinary warriors, and leaders than we do today."

"Nothing is more important than survival. Population is the mine, territory is the factory, population plus territory, that is the mine. Land without people is everywhere in the universe, people without land are not worth mentioning in the universe."

Dai Weilin turned to look at Pulin, and behind him, the newly summoned bureaucrats of Frostplate:

"Now, do you understand?"

"To be honest, I don't quite understand it yet, but it also feels like I understand a little bit..."

"Let me put it bluntly," Dai Weilin said. "I have three things to do, and the future development of Frostplate should also align with these three aspects."

"Please speak!" Pulin quickly picked up his pen to take notes.

"First, we plan to completely eliminate gender discrimination within five years," Dai Weilin said. "Anyone who dares to incite gender antagonism is undermining the unity of our great motherland."

"But we can't just give men special privileges..."

"Who says that giving people special privileges is the only way to be fair?" Dai Weilin said calmly. "Capitalism has no gender; everyone is a citizen of the country and a productive force of enterprises."

"Secondly, and this is what I'm about to discuss: abolish all gender-discriminatory privileges, and have all Law Enforcement Division Four Agency withdraw from the country for restructuring."

"Well, but what do you intend to do?" a bureaucrat couldn't help but ask. "Your His Excellency the President, you are a brilliant general and marshal, a player in the game of war, but this is politics..."

"Politics? Politics is about doing what is beneficial for the majority of people."

Dai Weilin scoffed.

"You can't unite voters by doing this, and corporations and the middle class won't accept it."

"Whether they accept it or not is up to them; this is the general trend."

Dai Weilin placed his hands on the table and swept his gaze across the crowd. "History is moving towards the universe—we, Frostplate, have fallen far behind other countries. Li Aoz into space reminds us that this planet has been in contact with extraterrestrial civilizations from the very beginning."

"Humans are forgetful; they won't believe anything unless they see it with their own eyes—many people have been locked on their home planet by the Malefic Calamity for too long, never seeing sunlight, and yet they dare to say the universe never existed. But in fact, you are all the cream of the crop, the elite bureaucrats of society, don't you realize that?"

Dai Weilin found it somewhat laughable. "The rhetoric of the Four Nations and GTB can fool ordinary people, but if you lie for so long that you yourselves actually believe it, it only proves that you are brain-dead."

Everyone was speechless.

Indeed, Dai Weilin's sarcasm hit the nail on the head.

Anyone who can become a decision-maker at the national level in Frostplate knows exactly what's going on with the current situation on Azure Planet.

"The establishment of the GTB is a product of the Four Nations' reluctant compromise—we are unable to manage a Azure Planet extraordinary knowledge is being misused. In fact, the extraordinary knowledge that we have each privately hoarded and excavated has already caused enormous conflicts and continuous wars. If all the people in the world were to advance to the Beta-rank —all existing politics and nations would completely collapse!"

Dai Weilin didn't waste words; every word he said was a fact that everyone knew but dared not admit.

In fact, the Four Nations were afraid of such an outcome.

Even though the Four Nations various problems now, at their core, they are all about order.

Even the worst order is better than the best chaos; pure chaos will only lead human civilization on the Azure Planet toward barbarity and destruction.

But the situation is different now.

After Red Arrow first began stealing transcendental knowledge, it became the only hegemonic empire that could stand proudly even without the Gamma-rank during peacetime. From then on, everyone began to secretly control parts of transcendental knowledge.

With Li Aoz into space, the existing harmonious political landscape was directly shattered.

GTB, Entropy Lord, Fiennes Federation...

Li Aoz is not an isolated case. In this era, even without Li Aoz, there would be Zhang Aoz or Chen Aoz — the Four Nations and GTB can no longer maintain the blockade.

Deep down, everyone knows that the GTB has a more efficient way to send people into space than by using Hydrogen Bomb bomb.

But why not do it? Once Li Aoz successfully connects with the alien civilization, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to eliminate Entropy and Malefic Calamity.

By then, Li Aoz will surely become a great hero of the Azure Planet, and the common people of the Four Nations will be eternally grateful to him.

Good people live in peace and contentment, but what about the Four Nations?

Could the Four Nations, or rather Four Nations leaders, survive in that environment? In a Cosmic Civilization where everyone is at the Gamma-rank, can such a backward system as the Four Nations truly be preserved? Or will they have no choice but to start reforming themselves?

—What a joke! Have you ever seen anyone who would revolutionize their own life for the future of all mankind? The current status of the Four Nations is precisely because of 'cosmic forces' like the GTB, who collude with each other like tycoons, causing the gate to the universe to be closed, planetary resources to be exhausted, and even sunlight to be monopolized.

Without these, what's the difference between the Four Nations and ordinary people from the Outland? In the eyes of Cosmic Civilization, they are all insects.

A group of ants whose gamma rays are few and far between.

A group of woodlice who can't even leave their own home planet.

A bunch of maggots who can't even achieve a unified civilization, each going their own way.