Forty Millenniums of Cultivation
Chapter 2246: Red Cloud Sadness Song!
The Real Human Empire, the New Light Zone, War III, the edge of the West Lantern boundary, no atmosphere, the extremely harsh environment of Resource Planet 223.
The West Lantern Realm is a small, three-billion kilometer diameter realm where stars are still in their infancy, so that the seven planetary systems surrounding the stars are implicated by dramatic gravitational changes that simply cannot form a dense atmosphere, and there is no inhabitable planet.
In turn, the rapidly changing gravitational and crustal movements, as well as the numerous planets torn apart and the exchange of materials impacted by meteorites, have made abundant rare metals and rare crystals available on several satellites in the West Lantern world.
The West Lantern World is the most remote little world in War III, and Resource Planet 223 is the most remote planet in the West Lantern World.
Enriched with a precious "nickel fused crystal vein” that is refined into high explosives, it greatly enhances the destruction capacity of artillery shells and even increases the destruction radius by more than 100%.
Yes, after the Empire reclaimed the West Langham from the Alliance, it also sent a small fleet to be stationed on Resource Planet 223.
The task of this fleet is not to hold onto Resource Planet 223 in a possible counter-attack by the Alliance - the Expeditionary Corps battalion had no idea they could do that.
They were merely “engineers” responsible for the difficult clean-up and reconstruction of mining bases that had been devastated by the Alliance in a desolate world with extremely harsh environments.
This is the mission of the Ninth Fleet of the Imperial Expeditionary Army War III, also known as the "Red Cloud Fleet”.
The Red Cloud fleet is a miscellaneous army, a local armed force, or, in the contemptuous tone of emperors and valves, “a bunch of hillbillies gathered together as a crowd" is a microcosm of millions of miscellaneous armies.
The Red Cloud fleet came from the Red Cloud realm, which was not conquered by the Empire until the end of the Great Pioneering Era, 500 years ago, or better yet, a world of "membership empires”.
Because at that time, in the face of the daunting army of the Empire, the rulers of the Red Cloud Realm wisely chose to surrender, and the Red Cloud Realm itself is a poor mountain of evil water and extremely poor resources, with nothing of value except the hungry billions of people, is to say that the Empire has very generously given the Red Cloud Realm a considerable degree of autonomy, so long as the Red Cloud pays taxes and sources periodically and obeys the orders of His Majesty the Emperor and the Senate when the Empire needs them, troopers and empires can attack the enemy together.
Even so “generous” and “benevolent”, the past 500 years have been extremely difficult for the people of the Red Cloud and even for the fairy repairers.
In addition to the taxes paid directly to the Imperial Court, the families of the four main election emperors continue to coincide with each other, beating the bone marrow in the form of “fees” and “special taxes”.
From the dozens of extremely developed industrial worlds in the center of the star sea, a large number of flowing water lines are constantly producing pharmacopoeia and industrial manufactured products, which, like the tidal waves, poured into the red cloud realm, completely destroying the original rough backwardness of the red cloud realm, but a relatively independent industrial system firmly tied the red cloud realm to the lowest part of the chain of interests of power and valve, becoming a minor component on the flowing water line.
Five hundred years ago, even though the technology was relatively backward, the Red Cloud realm was able to refine large quantities of armor, armoured shuttles, and even starships, or even one or two of the simplest Star Sea Jump units.
However, to this day, it appears that all the treasures used by the Red Cloud people are more beautiful, gorgeous and powerful, but no more crystalline armor is the brand of the Red Cloud world itself - all the crystalline factories of the Red Cloud world have been acquired by the factions of the four main emperors, smashing all the "outdated” streamlines, replacing them with new streamlines of power and the valve "generous donations, free donations”.
Naturally, the core technology of these treasure currents, all in the hands of the powerful in the center of the star sea, will never be known to the Red Clouds.
Moreover, these pharmacopoeia factories can no longer produce a complete set of crystal armor, only to refine 5% of the components on the crystal armor, and the remaining 95% will have to be transported to the center of the star sea and assembled locally.
In this way, Ayun's autonomous industrial system completely collapsed, losing all bargaining power, strangled by the precious power and valve of the center of the star sea, and became the other party's dumping place and resource supply place.
More tragically, the Red Cloud world does not have any abundant reserves other than manpower to supply the resources of the entire empire.
The artificial price here has been suppressed to an appalling extent - the master from the center of the star sea said, it is because of the cheap price of the manpower in the Red Cloud world and the honesty and willingness of the workers to set up the Pharaoh factory here, otherwise the master would be able to kiss his ass and walk away, open a factory in another thousand worlds, and even replace all human workers with spiritual energy puppets.
They come to feed the workers, for the sake of their fellow Empires, to do good deeds!
Speaking out loud, these high-toed masters suddenly forgot that it was in centuries-old dumping that the vast factions and Fabao factories in the Ayun realm were defeated with all sorts of despicable tactics that left hundreds of millions of workers unattended and defeated.
However, instead of saying this blank teeth, the masters sat on the bridge of a heavy cruiser and said these words. Even when they landed on the ground, there was a whole army of crystal armor around them to “guard the factory”. What about workers in the Red Cloud?
A strong Red Cloud worker has worked hard for a year in the Fabao factory under the family of four major election emperors to spit blood and even shrink his lungs, still unable to feed an old and young man, had to send his wife and daughter far away to the ocean to “work” in the entertainment club opened by the central authority of the Star Sea and the valves to feed his family with humiliating and smelly money - a human tragedy that has pervaded the Red Cloud realm of the past hundred years.
The central authority and valves of the Star Sea even reach out to the agricultural realm of the Red Cloud realm, replacing the native rice grains of the Red Cloud realm with genetically modified "spiritual rice, spiritual wheat” and alien crops.
Because these “spiritual rice, spiritual wheat” do produce extremely high yields, taste very good, and are rich in all kinds of nutrients and calories, the food groups controlled by the family of the four main electoral emperors at the outset also give high subsidies, so that workers who work hard in those factories and earn small wages can only afford the food they provide.
Yes, these foreign food groups are expanding very rapidly in the Red Cloud world, and within a hundred years they merged the small and medium-sized food groups of the Red Cloud world itself and bought large tracts of land from farmers - just as they did hundreds of years ago to the Pharaoh industrial system of the Red Cloud world.
The Qiyun world is called “autonomy”, but after all it is part of the empire. There is no way to enact independent laws to prevent outsiders from attacking the city. We can only watch these foreign food groups dominate the king.
When the vast majority of the land and seed sources were in the hands of foreign food groups, these guys finally daggered, waving the sword of the law and altering the genes of rice and spiritual wheat in secret so that all seeds could only be harvested once, but could not be sown again.
In other words, the red clouds have lost all their crop seeds, and if they need to be sown, they can only source constant purchases from foreign food groups.
Even when the Red Clouds wanted to experiment in secret and cultivate their own excellent seeds, they were astonished to discover that alien cash crops, which had been given to them by foreign groups in the past, allowed them to grow on a large scale and recycle fruits at high prices, had the effect of dramatically changing the soil composition!
Contaminated by these alien cash crops for a hundred years, the most fertile soil in the Red Cloud world is now only suitable for planting seeds from foreign food groups, and other seeds are sown and, even if sprouted, will die on a large scale.
In the beginning, outsiders bought the sour and astringent "cash crop fruit" from them at a high price, and said that the rich people in the center of the star sea liked to taste it the most. The Red Cloud people laughed with their bellies. It was strange to laugh at the rich people in the center of the star sea.
Until today, when the Red Clouds woke up in their first dreams, they finally knew what this “bitter fruit” was like.
And what the rich people in the middle of the star sea taste is not the juice of this fruit, but the taste of their blood.
It's too late to wake up.
The Red Cloud realm ranges from industry to agriculture to a complete system of cultivation, invaded and destroyed by outsiders in the center of the star sea, and fell into the hands of others.
What's the point of having a nominal “autonomy” even for the owners of the Red Cloud world?
This is even worse than direct aggression.
As a direct result of the aggression, it was imperative to establish a Government with an obligation to govern and safeguard the local population.
But now everything is an economic act, done by folk factions, who devour all the benefits, while all the "duties” remain with the self-government of the Red Cloud world, on the staring heads of the world.
The dead and alive of the Red Cloud people, regardless of the affairs of the center of the star sea, care about the local leaders “brutality, pressing too much”. At best, when it can't be done, the family of four major election emperors leaked some rubbish from the teeth to serve as rescue materials, that's all.
Ordinary people in the red clouds, they live on the brink of life and death in such a precarious state.
And the immortals in the Red Cloud are no better, or worse, than ordinary people.
In the past, when there was an autonomous industrial and agricultural system, all areas of the Red Cloud world needed a large number of fairy cultivators to support them. The fairy cultivators were extremely high-ranking and of great benefit, which meant a one-size-fits-all Tuba.
But now, the wave of foreign capital and technology is raging, and the first to collapse is the dignity and dreams of the native immortals.
His own sect was crushed by the foreign hawks, and he had to work for the foreign hawks, but even if he fought loyally for the rest of his life, and even let his children and grandchildren work for the foreign hawks for the rest of their lives, he would still be the villagers in his eyes, even a dog in the remote soil of the poor countryside, he would never be able to enter the core management of these hawks, management will never come down from the central star sea!
This is the fate of the Red Cloud Fairy for 500 years.