Star Tycoon

Chapter 242 Interstellar Tycoon
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Leona started the press conference.

Now that she is the governor, Leona wields immense power.

Not only the governor of this state, but also the talents from other states refreshed by Glory City have been supported and promoted to key positions.

Once Leona stood on the podium, she began to report on her recent work.

The reporters in the audience didn't want to hear those boring things.

"Mrs. Smith, why did the City Corporation land on Mars before the Smith Corporation?"

Leanna looked at the foreign reporter who asked the question and quickly said in an annoyed tone, "Of course it's because so many terrible things have happened in our country that John had to interrupt some things and come back to help some people clean up their messes. You know who I'm talking about."

"Some older women should just quit their jobs and not drag our futures into the abyss. Look at what they've done all these years!"

"I can't find anything she did, I mean good things. There are a ton of bad things, I don't even need to give examples."

Leanna quickly shifted the blame to others, claiming that she and John were the victims.

The reporter, not wanting to be killed and unwilling to delve into such a dangerous topic, quickly said, "The City-State has already landed on Mars, when will the Smith Corporation land on Mars?"

Leona replied irritably, "If certain people don't cause trouble, it can be done this year. What the city-state can do, we certainly can too."

"What the Smith Group lacks is not technology and capital, but an environment like a city-state where people can focus on doing things. As you can feel, our country is currently in chaos, and only in the Cotton City metropolitan area can things operate stably and normally."

In short, the blame always falls on others. No one from either Star City or Glory City is willing to take the blame themselves; they always shift the responsibility to others.

After Leona publicly accused some people, everyone knew that Leona's ambitions were about to be put into action.

With its cutting-edge technology, status as the largest conglomerate, and the most support, the Smith Group has long possessed the potential to become the next Nanbowan.

Today, whether it's the profits from lunar iron and aerospace technology or the powerful influence brought by the entire industrial system, the Smiths have no rivals whatsoever.

He has money, men, and guns, and friends all over the world, both domestically and internationally.

What's worse is that everyone has been waiting for years, just for them to go up there.

Only when the Smith Corporation becomes the supreme leader can humanity truly concentrate its efforts on interstellar colonization.

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Beijing TV quickly broadcast a news report.

"Hello everyone, according to the latest news, Chengbang Group will develop its first Martian residential community, named Chengbang Community."

"The Chengbang Community will be used as a residential and vacation community for the formal employees of the Chengbang Group and their families."

"Our reporter interviewed Hua Yingxiong, the director of the Chengbang Hospital of the Chengbang Group, to hear the views of this famous doctor from Tao County on the Chengbang Mars Resort."

The scene has changed from a newsroom to a male reporter interviewing an elderly traditional Chinese medicine doctor sitting behind a pulse-taking table in a classically styled room.

"Dr. Hua, what are your thoughts on the Mars Resort?"

Hua Yingxiong had been waiting for this question. He stroked his beard and smiled, his face bearing the confident smile of an old Chinese medicine doctor.

"This is certainly a good thing. Based on my research on Martian soil and water, living on Mars has great benefits for human health!"

The reporter asked, "What are the specific benefits?"

With a smile, Hua Yingxiong slowly said, "Low gravity may reduce the load on the joints and muscles of the human body. You don't need to live there for a long time. You can feel that some health problems are solved after living there for just over a month."

"A soothing environment is an excellent place for people with heart and breathing difficulties."

"The number of bones and organs in the human body is finite. Some people can solve long-term problems by replacing them, but you can replace your heart and eyes, but you can't replace your entire body's skin and flesh."

"If a machine is to last a long time, it certainly cannot be used for heavy work frequently."

"Just because our bodies have adapted to the current environment doesn't mean that the environment is the best for our bodies."

"Just because we've adapted to spring, summer, autumn, and winter doesn't mean we can say that places with spring-like weather all year round are unsuitable for human habitation."

"Mars is an excellent sanatorium for our bodies!"

The male reporter, who had received some scientific education, asked, "But the environment on Mars is extremely harsh, making it difficult to place a sanatorium there. Our country has many more advanced facilities."

Hua Yingxiong shook his head. "Building a resort in the desert and building a resort in a pleasant climate may achieve the same effect, regardless of the cost of construction."

"But the premise is that the two environments are similar, and the people doing the work are also similar."

"I'll start with the moon, not Mars."

Hua Yingxiong said earnestly, "According to data from the Interstellar Alliance, the working mortality rate of the Interstellar Alliance on the moon over the past few years has been less than one in a thousand."

"What does one in a thousand mean? It's safer than flying."

"Moreover, in the extreme environment of the moon, most of the deaths were due to improper operation and death in the outer space environment."

"The incidence rate in the Interstellar Alliance is less than one in 100,000, and the cure rate is as high as 100%."

"According to internal data from our city-state's medical department, the depression rate in the interstellar base is far lower than in any other country. For example, my impression of our country is that there are depression patients everywhere, but the interstellar alliance also has quite a few people. Even if the probability of depression is multiplied by ten, it is still much better than here."

"The Martian environment is not as bad as we imagined. We had never landed on Mars before, and our understanding of Mars was that it was a desolate place."

"President Tian has already led a team to land on Mars and found water resources and some rare plants. Developing Mars is less difficult than developing the Moon."

"In the future, the Mars Resort will also introduce the medical team of the City Group. The City Group will shrink some of its businesses and transfer some of the profitable businesses to other companies, and then focus on developing Mars real estate."

"Mars has abundant building materials, and the city-state's scientists have developed the latest extraction technology to break down food and nutrients from Martian soil."

"Transforming Mars is not something that can be done overnight, but building a city on Mars suitable for hundreds of thousands of people to live in will not take more than ten years."

"The era in which everyone has a small planet, starting from Mars, is certainly not far off."

"Flying out of the solar system may be something for the next generation, but Mars is a sanatorium and a base for learning and living for our generation. I will be going to the Mars sanatorium this year!"

Hua Yingxiong's speech overturned the traditional understanding of scientists around the world. Is Mars development really that easy?
At first, some people doubted that this old Chinese medicine doctor from Tao County was talking nonsense.

But when scientists used telescopes to observe Mars, they were quickly shocked to discover that there was indeed a lot of construction going on there!

Space exploration has improved significantly in recent years, and countries around the world are investing heavily in interstellar exploration.

Landing on the moon is still difficult, but it's achievable with difficulty.

Landing on Mars is a long way off, but launching a rover there isn't too difficult.

International organizations began investigating Mars, and when space stations and orbiting satellites captured images of thousands of people building the Tian Ersan sculpture on Mars, their previous assessments were instantly overturned.

Holy crap! People can actually live on Mars!
As the first person to astronaut in interstellar spaceflight, no one cares about Tian Ersan building a 100-meter-tall sculpture for himself.

The City State Group now calls the shots on Mars.

The Interstellar Alliance is divided into lunar factions. As long as Tian Ersan does not interfere with the others' normal landing on Mars, the others will naturally not stop him from developing Martian land.

Some of the rare minerals on Earth are nearing depletion, and humanity truly needs a second home.

Capital
After failing the exams repeatedly, Li Xiujing once again chose Chengbang Group.

In a group called "City-State Exam Preparation Group," Li Xiujing and the others talked about city-states.

Lee Soo-kyung: Will Chow Sang Sang hire anyone again this year?
Chu Zhengze: Why is this group still around? We've been out of school for years now, and our jobs are going smoothly. The salary from Chengbang is nothing to us. Xiujing, what have you been up to lately? Let's have a class reunion, my treat.

Li Lingyun: Really? Really? What era are we living in? There are still people who doubt the welfare of City State. A few years ago, when you were stuck in a hotel every day and couldn't go out, people in City State could go abroad to play as they pleased, eat whatever they wanted, and go to the hospital whenever they wanted. The entire company had hundreds of thousands of employees, plus temporary workers, and very few people got sick. How many of your family members died? Can you compare to City State?
Chu Zhengze: Li Lingyun, you've only been out of school for a few years, but you seem like a completely different person. You never used to be so impulsive. Have you run into trouble at work, or suffered a setback in your relationship? You're not getting any younger, you should get married soon.

System notification: Chu Zhengze has been kicked out of the group chat by the group owner, Li Xiujing.

Li Lingyun: Well done! This is a girls' group, so kick all the guys out!

Several years after graduation, many people seem like strangers to others.

Men are not allowed to intrude into a girl's circle, otherwise some topics will be difficult to discuss.

After kicking out all the troublesome men, the remaining women finally started to emerge.

Zhao Yinyin: Have you received the news? The City-State is preparing to sell all its businesses outside of Tao County and Maple Leaf Country and focus all its efforts on Mars development.

Gongsun Xiaoniang: How many people are there in the city-state construction? Why do they work so fast? It feels like many things are done in a flash. My impression of the city-state is still that it's full of female workers.

Li Lingyun: There are quite a few male workers in the city-state. The female workers all marry the male workers. The male workers are mainly in the city-state construction and some aerospace technology fields. They are all top talents. This time, when developing the moon and landing on Mars, General Manager Tian led all the male workers. There were not a single female worker.

Gongsun Xiaoniang: I see. I always thought there were more female workers in the city-state, quite a lot more.

Li Lingyun: Currently, there are 100,000 male workers and 40,000 female workers. The main reason is that the male workers do not post online, do not expose their work content, and do not negotiate with outsiders, so it always feels like there are more female workers.

What these people didn't know was that those who could be converted into soldiers in the space were mostly male. So, after the labor force was brought back to farm and the soldiers were sent out to work, there were naturally more men.

Zhang Baobao: If there are more men, then why are so many women unable to find partners? Many women in the city-state can't find suitable marriage partners, so they've resorted to same-sex retirement.

Li Lingyun: City-state men don't necessarily marry city-state women, but city-state women are all looking for city-state men, which leaves them single. Moreover, the marriage rate in city-states is actually quite high, with more than 80% of eligible men getting married, and the annual birth rate is above 2.5.

Li Xiujing: My dad insisted that I take the exam for City-State, saying that the center of the world would definitely be in the interstellar era, and that if I entered City-State, I could get connections in the interstellar era.

Li Lingyun: That's right. They should be hiring this year. With so many people going to Mars, the city-states will definitely not have enough people left behind.

Zhang Baobao: Will developing Mars require liberal arts majors? For example, literature and management.

Zhao Yinyin: Probably. Nowadays, the city-state uses robots for all its work. They run dark factories that can work without lighting. The robots used for developing Mars and the moon are high-quality robots called Wooden Man robots.

Lee Soo-kyung: That's right! This year, the city will definitely recruit more young women with collaborative abilities! Especially women of marriageable age like us!
A group of women all knew that this was not the case; the Chengbang Group's main requirement for women was simply to be beautiful.

It's not the kind of beauty they and their parents think they have, but rather the kind of beauty that conforms to popular aesthetics and, more importantly, to the beauty standards of the Chengbang Group.

You can either enter a city-state based on your looks and physical appearance, or you can enter based on your intellect and abilities.

The latter is too difficult.

Even former high achievers and top university graduates will begin to doubt themselves after failing to get a job at Chengbang eight times.

The city-state did not only recruit women, nor did it only recruit prostitutes.

Why can others get in, but you can't?
Such a large technology company, which has become one of the world's top companies and has even landed on and developed Mars, cannot possibly be entirely staffed by people with connections, right?
A group of people who consider themselves top talents can't even reliably land on the moon. After seeing that the city-state has already landed and developed Mars, they will definitely start to doubt their own abilities.

If you can't get into the City Group based on your real skills, then you definitely don't have enough ability!
For most people, lack of ability is simply a lack of ability.

Since they lack the ability and strength, they can only resort to unorthodox methods.

The most reliable option becomes to work as a temporary worker or to use one's looks to become a permanent employee.

Bai Wanru and Zhu Nuanyue are perfect examples; Tian Ersan has never hidden his vulgar tastes.

Humanity has entered the interstellar age, and just as Tian Ersan has proclaimed, many people have begun to fantasize about the idyllic life of owning an asteroid as their backyard.

With its resources depleted and climate harsh, the home planet is no longer suitable for habitation. The Martian home transformed by Tian Ersan is the young and promising home that humanity has always dreamed of.

Tian Ersan has been engrossed in Mars development and hasn't returned to Earth for several years.

Not only do I not want to go back, but I also don't want anyone else to come over.

In order to encourage countries to develop their own space technology and to lead others down a different path, Tian Ersan naturally rejected the free-rider requests of some people, and also blocked their access to technology, hoping that they would become self-reliant and strong.

Meanwhile, in order to motivate them to develop interstellar technology, Tian Ersan began to constantly boast about his good days on Mars, which inspired various countries on Earth to set off for Mars.

With Tian Ersan's constant encouragement, humanity finally entered the interstellar age through its own technology!

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