Starships of All Realms Online

Chapter 78 Meeting, Lunar Development

Once the relevant regulations were established, they were quickly implemented within the Blissful Space.

In fact, these wealthy people had no choice but to comply, since Fang Heng, as the sole authority controlling armed forces, would not tolerate such behavior.

Meanwhile, Fang Heng arrived at the interrogation room and saw the head of the conglomerate being held there.

"Yunfeng, how's the interrogation going?"

"Your Majesty, we have already interrogated three people. They have revealed the location of their family fortunes and their network of connections. Once all the interrogations are completed, we will follow this network to clean up the entire Elysium."

"Hmm, not bad. Speed ​​things up. We still have too few qualified officials, so we have to use our existing officials for the time being, but that doesn't mean we can just fill in the ranks with incompetent people."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After watching for a while, Fang Heng also left and headed to the administration building.

Although Fang Heng's fleet had previously occupied the lunar bases of these conglomerates, these conglomerates have existed on Earth for so many years that they certainly have more than one base. The principle of having multiple burrows is not only understood in East Asia, but these conglomerates that have existed for centuries understand it even better.

Therefore, this interrogation is necessary. We must find out about the conglomerate's network of connections and the family's various backup locations, safe houses, and so on.

These interrogations can be left to Wang Yunfeng; he doesn't need to do them personally.

After Fang Heng arrived at the administration building, he quickly went to the conference room.

There were already some people waiting for him here.

"Your Majesty!"

Upon seeing Fang Heng enter, everyone present immediately stood up and bowed.

"Everyone, please sit down. Is everyone here?"

"Your Excellency, everyone has arrived."

"Very well, let's begin the meeting."

This is the first meeting held in the Elysium world since the establishment of the Empire.

The meeting was attended by three cabinet members and representatives from the five ministries other than the military.

The three cabinet members are Wang Yang, Fang Yong, and Ma Kang.

The Minister of Rites was Wei Lin, the Minister of Personnel was Wang Qi, the Minister of Works was Wei Tao, the Minister of Justice was Cai Guotao, and the Minister of Revenue was Chen Xiao.

With everyone seated, the Empire's first internal meeting officially began.

"Wang Yang, let's begin."

"Yes, Your Majesty, this meeting is divided into the following topics."

First, determine the empire's development plan for the next 10 years.

Second, establish a talent promotion mechanism.

Third, improve the contribution system.

......

As each issue was raised, everyone's expression turned serious.

These issues involved five ministries other than the Ministry of War, so the meeting lasted a very long time.

After the meeting ended, it was already evening.

At this moment, Fang Heng sat on the balcony of the villa, looking at the brightly lit Elysium Space, and slowly savoring a glass of red wine in his hand.

After a while, Fang Heng put down his wine glass and sighed.

"Indeed, when it comes to enjoying life, these conglomerates know how to enjoy it. This bottle of red wine, although not the legendary Lafite, is still the famous Romanée-Conti, and it's from 1990."

Although I don't know much about wine, it tastes really good. Yunfeng, take a case back with you later and try it.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Well, you weren't invited to this meeting, so don't get too excited. Military power is an important area for maintaining the empire's rule, and many construction plans are not within the scope of civilian life. However, there will be a joint meeting later, and you and a few other colleagues will need to work together on some areas of joint military-civilian construction."

"Your Excellency, I understand."

"Well, how's the plan we made before going?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, this is the latest plan."

"Okay, I'll take a look first. You find a place to sit for a while."

After receiving the proposal, Fang Heng projected it onto the balcony and quickly browsed through it.

This plan is about developing the moon.

The Earth today is suffering from depletion of various surface resources and severe pollution, so it cannot be restored in a short period of time.

In order to quickly take control of the entire solar system, the moon was chosen as the location for the construction of the first large base.

This plan proposes building a large industrial area on the moon to produce various military equipment needed by the military, including but not limited to individual weapons, heavy firepower equipment, and large warships.

According to this plan, the entire construction will last for ten years to complete the construction of the ground buildings, and then another five years to complete the construction of the military port in outer space. The entire plan will last for 15 years. After completion, Earth will also have true interstellar combat capabilities.

Because in this process, the first thing to be built is the interstellar shipyard. Fang Heng's principle is that it is better for warships to wait for people than for people to wait for warships.

Only with strong industrial manufacturing capabilities can one possess strong military strength.

The proposal was quickly read through, and after Fang Heng closed his eyes and thought for a while, he nodded.

"Yunfeng, the plan is very comprehensive. Just follow it. The areas have all been designated. You'll have to work hard."

"Your Majesty, it's not tiring."

After giving a few more instructions, Fang Heng also let Wang Yunfeng leave.

"Ethan, we've been here for seven years now, haven't we?"

"Yes, Commander, it has been seven years."

"In the main world, not much time should have passed, right?"

"Commander, rest assured, according to the time-space anchor point calculations, only 7 months have passed in the current main world."

"Seven months is acceptable. In other words, before I go back, the time ratio is one month in the main world and one year here?"

"Yes, Commander."

"This is really good. It's just a pity that there are too few materials to build the secondary teleportation device. Otherwise, I could have a huge fleet in a short time if I mass-produced troops."

"Commander, I suggest you don't build too many warships in the main world for the time being."

"Oh? What do you mean?"

"According to the model calculations, as Commander, you travel through more and more time, our technological reserves will become stronger and stronger. The warships we currently possess may very well be obsolete in a dozen years. If we were to manufacture them on a large scale, it would be a waste of resources."

"That makes sense, but resources are the least of our worries since we've had them for so long. What we really need to worry about is the industrial system; we must raise the ceiling of industrial manufacturing as soon as possible."

"Yes, Commander, I understand."

"Ethan, I haven't even explained it clearly yet, and you already understand. It seems your intelligence is getting higher and higher."

"Commander, I've been learning about East Asian culture lately."

Seven years have passed, and Ethan has long since crossed that hurdle, becoming a true intelligent life form. Therefore, Ethan can no longer be regarded as an artificial intelligence, but as an electronic life form.

Ethan has gradually come to understand many of Fang Heng's meanings, and the tacit understanding between the two has become very deep.

Fang Heng understood the logic behind Ethan's suggestion, but having no ships and not using them were two different things.

Even if the current warships are not technologically advanced and may be phased out in the next ten years, this phase-out will only occur within Fang Heng's forces. These warships can be transferred to local garrison armies or law enforcement agencies.

In any case, it will take at least 50 years before it is truly phased out.

On the other side, after leaving, Wang Yunfeng quickly arrived at the lunar base.

The large-scale development of the moon is not only being carried out by the military, but the cabinet is also planning a major development program for the moon.

In fact, after occupying the Blissful Space and analyzing the database, Fang Heng also obtained general data about Earth.

The reason there is no detailed data is that the wealthy people in Elysium are rather arrogant and believe that Earth's existing resources and education are insufficient to support Earth's resistance organizations in attacking Elysium.

However, even with this rough data, Fang Heng has a general understanding of the Earth's current resources.

It has been said for a long time that the Earth's surface resources are scarce, and these data show that this is indeed the case.

However, this data does not include marine resources.

There are still many resources in the ocean, but due to environmental pollution, the aquatic resources in the nearshore areas have been almost completely depleted, and the deep-sea areas are also being gradually eroded.

As for mineral resources, given the previous consumption in the Elysium world, Earth is basically like a dead skin.

From the perspective of interstellar civilizations, Earth's resources are not abundant, but the consumption by the people on Earth alone cannot consume much of them.

He also found a way to deal with the vast human resources on Earth: conscription.

The living environment on Earth is not good nowadays, and many people suffer from diseases caused by environmental pollution, so the recruitment conditions this time will be very attractive.

In any case, given Fang Heng's cheat-like abilities, as long as these people join the army, they will gradually become loyal to him and to the empire.

Lunar development will be the most important part of this.

Since ancient times, warfare has always been about logistics, so the military's first plan was to develop the moon and establish a massive military supplies production base.

Meanwhile, the cabinet is preparing to establish a massive planting base on Earth.

The current plan is to establish these planting bases in North America.

Because of the Great Plains region, North America has the most plains, making it suitable as an agricultural production base.

Three days later, as dozens of transport ships descended from the sky, a large number of engineering machines appeared in what is now an uninhabited area of ​​North America.

These original urban ruins will be cleared one by one and then transformed into planting bases.

Although Fang Heng's biotechnology is powerful, this kind of transformation cannot be completed in a short time. It requires the application of specific strains of bacteria, which, along with the power of moss, will clear away the remaining foundation debris in the soil.