If they wanted the Cat Lamps to do anything useful, they had to equip them with useful tools. That was common sense, too.
Jiang Han decided to start by spreading education.
She did not seek to win the day overnight—only to ensure that, in time, the cats' cultural standards would keep up and let Long-Haired Cat Clawmark Island develop even better.
Of course... that was only Jiang Han's own way of putting it. The actual situation was more like this:
Xu Fangying said first, "To expand the communal habitat for technical cats, we can offer generous subsidies to attract them into staying in our territory. Then we can provide them with technical living allowances as well. That way, we'll be able to establish a complete reserve base for Cat Lamp technical talent."
Jiang Han replied, "Meow-ow, no. Those cats won't agree to that. Besides, higher subsidies for technical talent? Meow-ow, we'll probably have a whole bunch of Giant Cats grumbling at us for half a year. Cats really hate seeing other cats receive subsidies. Even when the Nightmare Giant Cats handed out allowances to the Nightmare Cat Lamps, they used 'overtime pay and extra overtime bonuses' as an excuse."
Xu Fangying was stunned. "Isn't that morning three, evening four?"
Jiang Han answered smugly, "That's right. Cats are pretty good at deceiving themselves, meow-ow!"
The idea of establishing a talent base and issuing subsidies to technical cats was thus rejected.
After that, Xu Fangying proposed several more plans. Even the matter of building Giant Cat Lamp trains was vetoed by Jiang Han.
"To be fair, they're all good plans." Jiang Han did not hide anything from her incarnation, even borrowing some expressions from her previous life. "But plans can never keep up with change, and they never quite match reality.