Xi Yan first sent people to guide the two colonies in the Faus System through reorganizing their planetary governments. Naturally, survey teams had been sent ahead to conduct field investigations, and representatives from every local social stratum had been politely invited to discuss the matter.
These Stone People knew how to read the situation, so they did their utmost to help the humans establish systems suited to the two colonies while also conforming to the Empire's public ownership system.
Although it was called public ownership, in practice, everything was privately owned by the Marshal alone. Even the Empire belonged to Xi Yan. Still, Xi Yan genuinely shared the benefits with all citizens, and calling it public ownership sounded nicer.
The main purpose was to pull the wool over the citizens' eyes a little. The citizens themselves actually understood this perfectly well, but everyone left it unspoken. That did not stop them from thumping their chests and boasting about how advanced their own "public ownership" was.
Didn't whatever belonged to the Marshal belong to the Empire? Didn't whatever belonged to the Empire belong to them? Didn't whatever belonged to them belong to the Marshal?
A closed loop of logic. This was public ownership! (Hands on hips.)
This idealized system gave the Stone People representatives quite a fright. Of course, anyone who could attend the meeting as a representative was no fool, and they immediately recognized its advantages.
It completely resolved the citizens' livelihood concerns, and all they had to do was pay a tiny price, such as surrendering their freedom and private property.
Labor points did not count as private property, either. Those were earnings from honest labor.
Xi Yan would forcibly confiscate the local residents' property, then compensate them with a corresponding amount of labor points based on its value.