Interstellar Farmer

More than ten years have passed since the Second Four Kingdoms War. In the more than one hundred years of war in the solar system, almost all man-made structures have been destroyed. to destroy.

In the solar system, only the earth is an administrative planet suitable for human habitation. The war destroyed the buildings, but the continents, including Australia and other large islands, remained. , the final result is to be destroyed together, and once again return to the state of confrontation on the earth thousands of years ago, divide the earth into four, and each establish its own territory. China is on the earth, and its current territorial area is a total of 28 million square kilometers, which is not small, only after the United States with 29 million. After two wars, the land area of ​​the earth has been reduced a lot.

Eight mineral stars, here is Pluto. It also includes some satellites and large meteorites. On them, some mining areas were built in the past, and reconstruction began after they were destroyed. Whoever originally belonged to them, then they will be redistributed according to their strength.

In this four-nation war, the goal of the competition is not these mineral stars and the mining areas above them. Now the four countries have their own planets, and there are different mineral stars in the star systems of the planets they belong to. But mining in Mineral Star, even with the existing technology, is still a arduous task, and even the output is completely disproportionate to the payment. Only then will a high-priced mining area be established on the mineral star. In order to distinguish it from the safe mining area on the administrative star, the mining area on the mineral star is called the isolated island mining area.

Now it is obvious that the establishment of the isolated island mining area is expensive, dangerous, and the output is very small. It is not comparable to the one on the administrative planet. The only one competing for it is the earth.

The four countries all have an administrative star, but no one would mind having an extra one. The resources on the earth, after coming into contact with alien civilizations, also know that there are many other mineral reserves.

The earth is now a large military camp, with many lines of defense. Within the line of defense, there are various mining areas all over the place, and there are also some re-established cities. Their main task is to serve the mining areas.

In addition to the land on the earth that still uses the old name - Asia, the land of China also has a whole planet, which is the administrative planet 2.1 light-years away from the solar system - Yanhuang Star.

Yanhuang Star has three continents and many islands, each of which is much larger than the current Asia. The climate is very suitable for human habitation, and it is a typical good administrative star. According to the area, the three continents were divided into seven continents, and there were provinces under the continents, and then there were cities, counties, towns, and villages, which were originally divided.

China has a total population of 3.1 billion, Yanhuang Star has 2.5 billion, and Asia has 600 million. These 600 million include troops stationed for a long time. Yanhuang Star has a vast area, and its total land area is larger than that of the previous Earth. 2.5 billion people live on it, which is really rare, especially after passing the Earth's peak with a population of 22 billion. .

With the development of science and technology, more and more people realize that a large number of people does not mean that they are necessarily strong. A soldier wearing a mecha can easily kill an army of 300 people with conventional equipment. If they do not have high-intensity firepower Words of support.

As the old saying goes: Technology is the primary productive force. As for science and technology, although the earth's civilization has developed rapidly and stepped out of the earth, it is still incomparable with the civilization that has developed for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. Even the time for some cosmic superpowers to step out of the planet is calculated in millions of years.

The universe is too big, and no one can be sure whether the high superpower is the pinnacle of the civilization of the universe, but in the eyes of the earthlings who are as weak as babies, they are.

The civilizations in the universe are divided into ten grades, from one to ten, from low to high. The earth still belongs to the big family that has just joined the universe civilization, and the level of civilization is the first level, which is the initial level. The first aliens to come to the solar system came from the Tianton Empire, a country with a third-level civilization. Although the difference is only two levels, the gap in technology is a gap.

The level of civilization is evaluated according to the degree of brain development, technological strength, technical level, overall overall strength, contribution to the alliance... and so on. There are very strict divisions. It has been more than 40,000 years since the Tianton Empire stepped out of the planet before it developed to the current third-level civilization. This also shows the huge gap between the levels.

High-level civilizations are not allowed to export technology to civilizations whose technology is lower than their own, and countries that are two levels higher than their own civilizations are not allowed to export any products to countries with lower civilizations, but ore raw materials are not included.

This is the technology blockade policy that is universal and must be followed. Every country that joins the Union must abide by it unconditionally.

In order to unravel the technological blockade, the level of civilization must be raised, and to raise the level, the country's own scientific and technological strength must reach a critical standard, and it can only be upgraded to the next level after being audited.

The reason, there is also an explanation, that is, each civilization has its own characteristics and advantages, and low-level civilizations also have their merits; if high-level civilizations impact low-level civilizations prematurely, then low-level civilizations will inevitably be assimilated and perish. Therefore, in order to For each country to live in harmony and coexistence in the universe, it must be that the civilization of that country reaches the critical point where it can be unblocked before it can contact the higher-level civilization; there is another reason, that is, before the It is impossible for you to learn advanced technology before you understand the knowledge you already know. It will also waste resources and manpower in vain, and make your country lose its own characteristics. The development of civilization cannot jump and faulty.

The reason is very good, but in fact, this is just an extremely effective management method implemented by countries at the top of civilization, layer by layer, without any cost, to firmly control countries lower than themselves live. If a country with a low-level civilization wants to develop one step higher, it needs money, large-scale mining, and sells most of the resources it acquires to the next level to improve its own technology. There are so many upgrade technologies, what should I do if I run out of money? Exploiting countries that are lower than oneself, going up one level at a time, forms a pyramid made of technology, which has a stable and safe hierarchical structure. There is another way to quickly upgrade your own civilization, that is to discover a technology that is more effective than the existing technology. However, you can only get rewards after handing over this technology, and the top civilized country that has obtained this technology, he The strength of the country has also increased accordingly. In this way, the countries at the bottom of the pyramid will never have the opportunity to surpass the upper levels, and the technologies mastered by the upper levels will always be more powerful than those at the lower levels.

Now China's scientific research institutes are divided into three types, one is to study alien technology; the other is to develop technology of its own civilization; Suitable for your own use. The three are indispensable. The most important thing is to develop your own civilization and technology. No matter how good alien technology is, it is only suitable for others. It has nothing to do with you. If you want to use it, you must first understand it and use your own thinking to understand it. . And if one's own civilization is all other people's, then there will never be a chance to surpass, and if one is always behind others, one will inevitably be slowly assimilated by alien civilizations.

The time required for any common subject of any of these three research institutes is recorded in ten years. Some people may think that with the successful experience of aliens, they can succeed just by understanding it. How can it be so simple, just like a blacksmith who only knows how to hit a hoe, let him build a Ferrari, can he do it? ? Maybe after he studies and studies, he can practice steel materials suitable for making cars, but a good car uses not only steel materials, but also many other materials, each of which is a profound subject. Turning steel materials into engines, Parts such as the casing involve more technology. If you want to develop by leaps and bounds, it looks beautiful, but the possibility is zero.

This is still based on the selfless and generous wish of the aliens to open up technology to us. How can there be such a good person in the world who is so selfless to help you? If you want technology, yes, you can exchange it with money. What's more, there are barriers of civilization: the upper civilization is not allowed to provide technology to the lower civilization. There is no free lunch to eat, and the money required to successfully complete a civilization upgrade can make any country that has just stepped into a new level of civilization poor.

The four countries of the earth civilization did not know what the universe was like until they rushed out of the earth. The naive idea that they thought they were the most intelligent creatures in the universe before was as ridiculous as sitting in a well and watching the sky. From arrogance to the lowest level of civilization, the gap is so big that it is difficult for all people on earth to accept.

Those who are not aggressive will inevitably be replaced. Like the countless low-level civilizations in the universe, the four countries on the earth have joined the bottom layer of the universe civilization, and began to add bricks and tiles to the superstructure, contributing their meager strength.

Yanhuang Star, this planet owned by China alone, needs to talk about its origin.

The Yanhuang Star was not the first to arrive in China. In 2601 A.D., the first contact between the earthlings and the aliens, they paid a huge fee to get the specific coordinates with the help of the aliens, and then paid a sum of money to be able to The most basic man-made wormhole is built, and the connection between Yanhuang Star and the earth is also connected by this wormhole with the smallest flow and the longest time.

Speaking of this, I have to say that the luck of the people on Earth is really good. Every person on Earth who knows the history of that year will be very grateful for it.

There are more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Not every star will have an administrative star suitable for human survival. The most authoritative organization estimates that there may be one to 20,000 administrative stars suitable for human habitation in the entire Milky Way. It is estimated that, after all, the Milky Way is too big, and no one can complete one-tenth of it in his lifetime. There are more than 3,000 administrative stars discovered in the Milky Way so far.

From this number, we should be able to see the status of the administrative star in the universe. There are often countries that fight for one or two administrative stars, and even the country may perish. It would be this category if the four nations on Earth didn't stop.

The aliens came here based on the signals that the people on earth have sent to all parts of the universe for hundreds of years. They never thought that there would be five administrative Planets, this kind of situation is rare, not to mention whether there are precious or rare mines on the five planets, there is nothing, just five administrative stars is a huge fortune. (Note: The common agreed rules of the universe clearly stipulate that any civilization that has just left the planet, within the radius of ten light-years of its home planet, belongs to its reserved sphere of influence, and no other civilization may use any loans to occupy it.)

At that time, the alien who came here became greedy, but to his regret, after discovering the earth civilization, in order to greed for the little reward after discovering the new civilization, he reported it to the top immediately .

Earth civilization has flying tools that can leave the planet, and a complete civilization, then it has the minimum standard to enter the universe civilization, and cannot be treated like the natives who have not yet left the planet, although the earth civilization is in the eyes of aliens. Indigenous is not much different.

Not only did he report it, but there is also a more important point that made the greedy alien dare not act rashly, that is, the fleet that came this time was not commanded by him alone, and there are other two countries that also received the signal from the earth And come here.

If there are rare minerals on these five planets, you can use them to buy the two countries, and when you pretend to help the earth people to find the other four, you find that there are only some unsold minerals on the five planets. Of course, If you can sell this administrative star as a commodity, you can also sell it for a lot of money, but what country comes here to buy it, then the operation is not something you can do, because of these reasons, let this foreigner The stars completely died of carnage.

However, this alien did not let the earthlings take advantage of it. They helped to explore the planet, set up short-distance low-level passages, sold some second-class transport ships, and wiped out the earthlings who had just joined the universe family. ;After the four countries of the earth joined the cosmic civilization, they could borrow money from the higher-level bank, and the money was taken away by the aliens. It has been hundreds of years until now, and the Chinese country is still struggling every year to repay the loan. With little food and clothing, one can imagine how ridiculous the price he sold was.

This alien is a famous pioneer of the Tiandun Empire and has the status of a noble earl. His name is Da Heman!

————The above are excerpted from History of China's Millennium Development, History of China's Territory Expansion, History of China's Science and Technology Development... and other books.