History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 4 Dream

When Su Heyang's electromagnetic cargo airship took off, it always made an unpleasant creaking sound.She thought that such an old hull would always have such problems when it was produced in some dark and oily machinery factory decades ago.Airships are the work of workers with arms as thick as tree trunks, eyes cloudy and powerful, and hair like hellfire.They smoked the low-quality cigars that were secretly planted by an unknown biological supply space station, and the weld scars they made carelessly, due to the full load, slowly began to loosen over time.

However, the passengers in the car didn't care about the familiar voice. She was going to Buck's Bazaar 1370 kilometers away today to buy some good guys from the orbital arsenal of the P1-1 galaxy for her single-person assault boat.

More than 70 years ago, when Su Heyang's grandfather was still young, Buck's Bazaar was already quite large.It’s just that at that time, almost the entire market was dealing in mining equipment, and the only two arms dealers were self-operated by the local coalition government, and only hand-held light weapons were sold on ordinary shelves.Today, although the size of the bazaar has gradually increased by about 20.00%, more than half of the merchants are selling weapons and ammunition-except nuclear weapons.Even if the heavy elements mined by nearby rocky planets are enough to produce a staggering number of fission nuclear weapons, fusion and fission weapons are still strictly prohibited at the civilian level.

In the weapon shop, Uncle Maris was bored watching the news of the border war broadcast by Shuoye No. Produced children's cartoons about bears and people, and a live video of a classic gun battle in the semi-finals of holographic e-sports more than 200 years ago.Seeing the well-proportioned figures of Ms. Su and Yang who have undergone long-term military training greeted at the gate, Uncle Maris made a lazy gesture of "choose at will", and then turned his attention back to the four screens.

With the assistance of the transport robot, Ms. Suhe took a fancy to and took down two 5 gigawatt plasma launchers and five spare weapon energy packs in the weapon area, and took down two "Lancers" in the armor area Level III shield generator.Su Heyang originally wanted to chat with Uncle Maris with red curly hair, especially about the interesting animals on his younger brother's Yunsixing farm.It's just the slight but continuous iodine isotope in the weapon store, which is similar to a nuclear leak. The mixed metal smell makes Su and Yang, who are usually busy in their iridium gold mining area, don't want to stay for [-] minutes longer.

After paying 23 joint credits, and gently greeting Uncle Maris with a sweet voice, Su and Yang jumped on their transport boat and flew straight home.

Due to the increasingly rampant pirate forces in the border areas and the inability of the coalition government to maintain a considerable full-time army in such remote inhabited areas, this state has lasted for decades.In recent years, some people have proposed to imitate the "fubing system" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Sui and Tang Dynasties in ancient China to build a military-civilian integrated production and combat system consisting of 29 mining and agricultural planets (including dwarf planets and asteroids).

The coalition government will initially establish the basic administrative system of the mining and agricultural areas on the planet, divide them into blocks of 130 to 290 square kilometers, and attract families who are poor or pioneering, or both.The government signed a 100-year "semi-permanent" authorization contract with them, and then gave these cultivators and miners basic equipment, and their new life began.For all the food and minerals produced by these planets during the lease period, the "producer" households need to pay 30.00% of the production in the first 190 years to the government as taxes, and the remaining [-] years can be sold to the mineral and food exchanges in the star area. At the same time, you can pay the per capita tax with joint credit points at the same time according to the tax rate announced by the coalition government.

During the entire 290-nine-year contract period, each "household" needs to send a volunteer soldier to the military government of the star region every 15 years, and prepare its own weapons and equipment for participating in the war.Volunteers, regardless of gender, need to receive 97 days of military skills training in the military training camp on this planet every year.Under this system, each large planet like Shuo Ye can provide the military government with [-] to [-] stable soldiers with basic military qualities and a variety of space combat vehicles and weapons.The outstanding ones among these voluntary soldiers also have the opportunity to go to the famous Mars Olympus Military Academy in the solar system to further their studies and take a further step towards their career as a professional soldier.

It is the third generation that Suheyang's family moved to Shuoye Star from the permanent inhabited space station of the P1-2 Suez galaxy. In addition to their iridium products and raw materials, this star area has also bred several other types of iridium products and raw materials over the past century. A group of bandits who make a living by robbing merchant ships.And since the pirate group started 50 years ago, it started to grow quietly through a planet with rich food resources.They used their superior force and political skills to force the various pirate factions to gather under the same chain of command, and their threat to the planets on the border of the coalition government has also increased.

After returning home, she commanded the robot to unload the equipment bought from Uncle Maris just now, and move it to the warehouse where the good-performance single-person assault boat that her father bought more than ten years ago is located.This assault boat is sometimes used by Su and Yang's family to expand the mine and other operations when it is not called to fight.Just when she was about to tie up her mid-length black hair, climb up to the workbench, and hoist the first plasma launcher to the bow for installation, the dark sounds of the whole world stopped abruptly, and all the flying insects died. Suddenly, he stopped flapping his wings, and the air seemed to stop flowing.This part of the immersion simulation is over.

Ever since the inventor behind a name lost in the ancient mists built immersive sims available, building and experiencing non-athletic — or more narrowly, political — systems has always been harder than athletic Or a war-like experience.The homework that Su and Yang got today is in a carefully designed and constructed system, through the simulation of historical events in three periods and three periods, to learn the details of human beings from 371 to 660 years in the universe.

A month later, Su and Yang enter another historical simulation.This simulation depicts historical events at the age of 37, 59 years after the last time the heroine bought equipment.The population within the joint government domain has also expanded due to the skyrocketing increase in the amount of resources obtained by human beings after entering the cosmic age.

At the same time, those organizations, institutions and companies that hold and dominate the allocation of resources have not yet considered the rapidly growing social problems in this period of rapid development.As a result, more people fled to the border, and pirate groups on the edge of various star regions became their new asylum.

In the following 40 years, after the pirate group near Shuoye star continuously harassed the frontier space station and asteroids, and at the same time devoted themselves to developing more inhabited planets, and the population continued to pour into their territory, they finally had the ability to communicate with P1-2- 3 The ability of the Beso Star Division to stand up to court.

When and how the war began has been difficult to ascertain in several conflicting accounts.According to traditional views, historians believe that it should have started in a border conflict in 433 of the Universal Era. Military history researchers behind this conflict analyzed that it was a feint planned by pirate groups for subsequent large-scale invasions.

Although Su Heyang's heroine's figure and skin are no longer as tight and smooth as they were 37 years ago, the semi-military life in the mining area over the years has kept her in a similarly graceful figure.As the captain of the squad, she drove a small command fire support missile boat that was not much more advanced than the previous simulation, and led five squadrons of assault boats to take off to face the third wave of attacks by the pirate group.

No sooner had they sailed outside the atmosphere than Su and Yang, along with 53 other assault teams of similar size, came under fire from small fusion weapons.All more than [-] professional and non-professional military boats of various types were instantly wiped out and became cosmic dust.This is also the first time that Su and Yang, as students of history studies, have experienced a near-real death experience in the simulation since they started the simulation practice.

For nearly ten days after that, because a certain area of ​​her nerves was always in a state of sluggishness, she could only live with fluids and certain drugs.This kind of dangerous simulation teaching has always existed widely, and there have been countless voices of opposition in various colleges, research institutions and military departments.However, this kind of simulation teaching that is very close to reality has been experienced by students and soldiers who believe that it will help them have an experience that is infinitely close to the real situation in their future professional work.Practice has proved that this can significantly enhance their better grasp and predictability in real-world operations.In the end, those opposing voices died down because of political lobbying and the irreplaceable role of these teaching methods.

This time, the war and loss of life, which historians named as the Beso Bian Rebellion, lasted for nearly 20 years.At the end of the border chaos, the civil strife caused by the pirate group slaughtering the leaders three times, the orderly and tenacious resistance of the military and civilians in the Besso sector, and the continuous supply of materials from the coalition government finally subsided.

However, the political governance environment of the star area has undergone tremendous changes from before the border chaos: some of the remnant pirates who surrendered due to appeasement occupied a resource-rich and populous planet like Shuo Ye and were in a semi-independent state.Some of the three to five planets that formed a certain small alliance state in order to protect themselves during the border chaos also each held an important interstellar channel on the edge of their own range, causing the cost of navigation in the overall star area to double.

The lack of population and resource statistics during the border chaos made the physical and joint credit tax system that could have been obtained from various planets exist in name only.

Ms. Su and Yang, recovering from organ deficits, were extremely exhausted, but they could not let up on the tasks of study and practice.The simulation she is going to enter this time is actually a meeting of the Politburo of Besso Star Region Government Ministers who are actually political co-owners.She will be involved in a policy that will affect the sector for at least the next 200 years.

Su Heyang, who is the director of the policy formulation committee of the Ministry of Finance of the star area government, needs to convince the ministers and committee members that the new tax system is the best choice for the star area tax policy under the current fiscal execution and regional characteristics. .The new tax scheme is divided into the following three aspects:
[-]. Based on the fact that the star area coalition government's administrative management of various grass-roots planets, asteroids, and space stations has actually collapsed, it is impossible to implement the previously effective system of military and economic integration between households and households.Therefore, the new policy abolished the practice of providing soldiers to the coalition government on a regular basis by each household, and replaced it with a more flexible recruitment system.

[-]. Due to reasons similar to Article [-], the system of paying in kind to the government every month, that is, minerals or grains, cannot be effectively implemented due to transportation and other factors.The new tax law changed the tax cycle from the monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual regulations stipulated by each planet and star area to a unified payment twice a standard year.The payment time twice a year is generally arranged by the governments or management committees of each planet according to the natural conditions or production methods of different industrial division planets.

431. The disorder of population statistics and hidden population make the original base of per capita tax payment lost.The new tax law is based on the total per capita tax payment in the 431 year of the cosmic calendar, weighted and evenly distributed to planets with different resource endowments, and then distributed according to the reclamation or development area or cubic volume recorded in the planet in [-].On this basis, this tax is added to the twice-yearly tax in kind and credits.Such measures were indeed the best choice under the circumstances at that time, because if each planet could not form a set of feasible taxation methods, it might end up as the ancients feared that the social management function could not be supported without effective taxation. down, and completely collapsed.

Although this meeting seemed very ordinary at the time, it was only recorded as an ordinary sector policy meeting called urgently.Neither the participants nor the organizers expected that the basic logic of this set of tax laws would become the most common taxation method in the human universe during that period after various modifications and improvements over the next 1000 years.

Although this set of tax laws cannot be called perfect, it cannot even be called fair or light taxation for the people. What's more, after the rulers of several periods added some regulations, it made the people suffer even more.However, the significance of this tax law is that it gave future government managers a very basic tax idea and guidelines, and these guidelines were able to rebuild after the collapse of several regimes.The experience accumulated in the new tax law, in those eras when talents had withered, allowed very highly skilled and professional personnel to implement at least part of effective tax policies, allowing government management to slowly build on this basis.

The entire meeting lasted seventeen days, and Su and Yang felt that the brain fatigue of this simulation was comparable to the nightmare of being blown into atoms last time.Through various "procedures" such as speeches, debates, secret meetings, intrigues, threats, confrontations, compromises, and peace talks during the seventeen days, she finally won the consent and support of the majority of political leaders in the meeting.

When she walked out of her simulated operation room exhausted physically and mentally, she felt that her heart was surging due to the "personal" experience of this period of history. An indescribable sense of loss and excitement seemed to be somewhere in her brain. Faintly rooted.Maybe that's why everyone has been lamenting the complexity and grandeur of this kind of political simulation being created, she thought.

After seven years of professional study, in 1731 of the Universal Era, Su Heyang entered the policy committee of the capital city of Raul, the capital of Beyklar in the Baves star region, as a trainee member.Generally speaking, judging from the statistical data of political schools in the entire human universe, students who can complete all holographic simulation courses account for only [-]% of all history and political students.

In each cosmic standard natural year, less than one-third of the more than 3 colleges and research institutions in the human universe claiming to have teaching qualifications in history and political science can provide all holographic simulation courses approved by various governments.And these more than 1 colleges and research institutions can only provide less than [-] high-achieving students in history and political science to the local governments of more than [-] inhabited planets each year.

Since the violent turmoil in human society around the year 1000 of the Universal Era, it seems that most people have undergone fundamental deflection and changes in the development and cognition of society, economy, politics and humanities.After that, human political and economic thinking tended to be more conservative, rather than the overall trend of being more extroverted and pioneering in the previous 1000 years.

Similar to the known experience of human beings in the past thousands of years, when people's thinking tends to be conservative, more people will be willing to seek answers to various questions in history.The 4000-year history of civilization on the earth, plus the 1000-year history after going into space, make people have enough depth and breadth to dig out the treasures contained in historical knowledge.

In such an overall situation, Su Heyang, and the Department of History and Politics of Xiduxing Comprehensive University, which she graduated from, was an ordinary and little-known school, which gradually became popular in the 200 years before she was born.Objectively speaking, looking at the period of more than 1000 years ago from our perspective today, the rise of conservatism is indeed an inevitable choice of history and the people.

The commonality of human overcorrection continues to affect the development of history, so it does not seem to be supported by practice in any theoretical model of absolute rationality.After all, it may be like the conclusions of some ancient masters: as long as the research object is a subject of human beings, when the number and complexity of the samples tend to be larger-scale collectives, the final result will inevitably not be a convergent and usable result , and will inevitably be a resultant cluster closer to chaos and disorder.

(End of this chapter)