History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 63 History Outline

During that time, the job of the army was mainly to use force to deter merchants and individuals who continued to use the existing monetary system, or those who insisted on bartering and hoarding exotic goods.During this process, the latent resistance forces in various star regions, as well as those conservative forces took advantage of such conflicts to start various series of activities.And because demilitarization has been implemented in most places for at least five to ten years, these rebels who did not use violence were quickly wiped out by the security and military police forces composed of these professional troops.

With the support of the high-frequency, cost-free delivery of the military material reserve transport team, the supply of materials to many key star regions and planets has even reached five to ten times the usual amount.The abundance of supplies gave the local officials who implemented the new monetary policy enough chips and confidence. During this period, the relevant government departments issued a certain amount of lithium-based credit point consumption vouchers to all citizens of these star regions and planets.Although this move was called "bribing" the people by those local opponents, it effectively dispelled many potential grievances and opposition intentions.

Simultaneously with stabilizing prices, it is the exchange of new lithium standard credits with the original currency of each star area.With the abundant supply of materials, the work of this part has been carried out quite smoothly in most areas.According to the economic level of each star area and planet, the central finance department and the central bank of the Tiankui regime formulated the exchange ratio for the original currency of each place.Although these "exchange rates" appear to be lower than the market expectations of most regions, resulting in a certain degree of second and third rounds of hoarding goods, but due to the arrival of huge quantities of goods, these situations are still under the policy implementation. It has been relatively properly resolved within one to two years.

Of course, the anger and resentment that were extinguished by force and violence did not dissipate with the stability of the new regime.They lurked and actively participated in the construction of a new regime that unified the entire galaxy cluster, and at the same time re-participated in the star sector and galaxy politics in a tried and tested way.They are waiting for an opportunity.

If we look at the simultaneous currency unification during the unification of the Tiankui regime and the subsequent large-scale star tunnel development from the perspective of future generations, we can see the decline of some original vested interests and their repackaging themselves. .However, the new regime in that era was not strong enough to maintain its combat effectiveness against these factors from the inside out, from top to bottom.Perhaps, if the Tiankui regime lasts for a hundred years or even more than 200 years, these problems will be resolved with time and more factors, but this cruel, super galaxy cluster society composed of humans has not left them such time.

The unified policy of the lithium-based credit point system, and the actions taken in the past 50 years after the policy was released, were mainly focused on the economic level, mainly involving the daily consumption of the people and those merchants who hoard a large amount of goods. Most of the conflicts of interest can be used Economic means and relatively limited and restrained administrative and violent means.However, the "Star Tunnel Unblocking Plan" implemented at the same time required the use of more military resources to ensure its smooth implementation.

As we all know, in the last 100 years of the "first interstellar era", due to the decline of the earth's political and military control over the entire galaxy cluster, a large number of "dock wall" stars with star tunnels or resource-type planets and galaxies as their cores appeared. district.Although most of these areas are limited in size, due to the long-term life-and-death armed struggle with pirates and other intertwined forces, they generally have a small but powerful armed force.

Since these Wubi planets or star regions have been in an independent or semi-independent state for a long time, the regime formed by them does not need to be responsible to a higher level of government.Generally speaking, the powers and obligations of lower-level governments to higher-level governments are mainly reflected in fiscal revenue and foreign military defense.But on these star regions and planets, their long-term semi-independent status allows almost all their financial revenue to be allocated to the daily expenses of the region. For more than 100 years, this state of autonomy has naturally cultivated a number of local forces that are loyal to the local regime or local interests.The people under the rule of these forces are also more inclined to retain these original "territories" and interests because they have obtained the benefits of these "self-governments" for a long time.

From the perspective of the individual interests of these specific planets, galaxies, and star regions, through high star tunnel tolls and the sale of advantageous resources of certain regional monopolies, they can have huge financial flexibility and give the public more welfare and social investment.However, from the point of view of the human beings in the supergalactic cluster as a whole, these different regimes use their own resources to fight against other neighboring regimes, and even wars have caused more people to suffer explicit or hidden A huge loss of sex.

Judging from the political experience of ancient China, most people have reservations about the war launched by the Qin Dynasty to unify China for the first time and many subsequent issues.However, one of the most important tasks after the unification of the dynasty was the unified management and transformation of water conservancy facilities in the main stream and tributaries of the Yellow River Basin.The empire transformed several water conservancy facilities that were used by various countries in the past to be on guard or prepared for military purposes, and built them into a state that was more in line with the laws of nature and the farming needs of the people.

This action, as well as many other projects such as the unification of weights and measures, currency, writing, and the construction of roads, etc., paid a huge price in economics, politics, people's strength and lives, and objectively provided economic activities in a larger area at that time. Great convenience, greatly reducing transaction costs.This kind of historical experience, as well as the many practical benefits that the people can obtain objectively, make the people and their leaders, whether it is personal ambition or collective unconsciousness, internal motivation On the one hand, they all tend to have a unified regime that governs at least a certain large area.

As mentioned in the previous chapter of this book, when the breadth of human development once again far exceeded the communication efficiency achieved by its own technology, the same situation also appeared in the human universe between 600 and 700 years of the cosmic era.At this time, what the Tiankui regime needs to face is still not much different from itself in terms of military power and war potential, just like the Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei that have stood for more than a hundred years in Qin Shihuang's capital. Formidable opponent.

The interstellar war around star tunnels and resource planets began in 687 of the cosmic era and continued until 696 when the Tiankui regime declared the establishment of a unified super galaxy cluster country for all mankind.The war at this stage is generally considered to be the second stage of the unification war compared to the previous decade or so.The unification war of more than 30 years was the largest war in human history up to that time, involving the most people, investing the most resources, and covering the widest territory.This war, which lasted for more than 700 years, was hundreds of times larger than the second largest war in history, the Second World War in the 40s and [-]s. .

During World War II, according to reliable statistics, about 20 million people around the world died in war or war-related disasters and hunger.According to incomplete statistics, about [-] billion people, including civilians and soldiers, died in this long-term battle called "Tiankui Unification War" by historians.At the same time, during the more than [-] years of annexation wars, no less than [-] habitable planets and no less than [-] secondary or pure fortress planets were razed to scorched earth or directly bombed.After these inhabited planets were bombarded indiscriminately by biochemical weapons and cheap fission weapons, they became uninhabitable, at least for a long time, and became hellish "dead planets" on earth.

Some of these planets were slaughtered simply because they were in star tunnels, or the key points of the gravitational slingshot area of ​​​​massive stars.Some, because they provided a steady stream of war support for their own regime, were "detoured" by their opponents and became a tragic memory in history.

In the 5th century AD, Clovis established the Merovingian Dynasty of the Frankish Kingdom and established the initial enfeoffment and lord-knight system.From the perspective of the East, which is dominated by China, the earliest enfeoffment system appeared after King Wu conquered Zhou and established the Western Zhou Dynasty. From a historical perspective, China and the West are indeed very different in this respect.In short, the means of governance in any period cannot be separated from the technological level of that historical stage.

Before the telegraph was put into large-scale application in the [-]th century, in the ancient times when horse racing was the speed of information and military delivery, feudal polycentric city-states were chosen, and Wubao was the administrative system.From this point of view, the formation of the traditional central local political form of China's centralization and county system should be more credited to the feats of Qin Shihuang and the pre-Qin Legalists in sweeping Liuhe, all the way to Emperor Wenjing Wu, these few people who are inside the law and outside the way inherited.Confucianism, on the other hand, appeared more as a means to maintain the overall rule in the later period. After all, under the practice of the "tyrannical Qin Dynasty", although a pure power or military system can maintain a country with such a territory in the short term, it will take a huge amount of time to do so in the long run. human and economic costs.

Even the way Confucianism participates in politics is constantly changing.From the initial creation in the pre-Qin era of contention among a hundred schools of thought, to the official ideology in the Han Dynasty and then developed into a knowledgeable family, and then became a family politics like the "king horse" like the Jin Dynasty, and then after the wars in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was destroyed by the imperial examinations in the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. Form is once again a political force.From a technical point of view, this is indeed a relatively low-cost method obtained through long-term practice to maintain a centralized empire of prefectures and counties like China under the circumstances of inefficient communication and military deployment in ancient times, and even political statistics.

After entering the late nineteenth century, if we look back at the late Qing Dynasty when telegraphs began to be used, the several foreign wars or wars of independence won by China or the Confucian cultural circle in a broad sense in the twentieth century all reflect this political system. Institutional superiority under modern conditions of communications and military deployment.

If we say that the two main social governance methods in the Earth Age—democracy and republic—are to some extent born out of the political and military strength of ancient Western Europe, the compromise under the law of the jungle among the city-states and the apparent equal rights.Well, this form of increasing internal friction in a larger area, historians and political theorists believe that it will eventually be abandoned by the times under the advancement of technology.

The above-mentioned contradictions in the internal governance mechanism of the society and the contradictions between the regimes were like this in China during the Warring States Period, and it was like this during the splitting period of China for thousands of years.Later, this was the case in Europe until the Great Recession period triggered by the asteroid crisis, and even in the interstellar era, everyone used certain node and monopoly resources at their disposal to blackmail and attack each other.

Such situations and problems were intentionally or unintentionally ignored due to the unprecedented rapid development of territory, resources, population, technology, and social mobility in the first 1000 years when human beings opened up the Virgo supercluster.Just because the long-term accumulated contradictions have not been properly resolved, historians generally believe that during the process of the Tiankui regime’s unification of the supercluster, these problems were at least to a certain extent exploded and vented.

It is precisely because of these long-term multi-faceted and systematic problems, coupled with the nature of the Tiankui regime itself that is superstitious in military and political means and the internal governance structure logic, that the regime's control over the integrity of the entire galaxy cluster lasted only 13 Year.However, these 13 years of unification had a huge and far-reaching impact on the development of the human universe in the following 2000 years.

This is the first full-scale large-scale war in the interstellar history of mankind that has affected almost all inhabited planets, galaxies, and star regions. The lives lost in this war are comparable to the sum of all wars in human history.

This is the second time for all human beings and the first time in the interstellar era that the global credit point system was promulgated and implemented on Earth in the 21st century.

This is the first time in human history that such a large-scale traffic project has occurred. It is also the largest war caused by a single engineering plan in human history, and it is also the war with the largest number of victims.

This is also the first new regime to unify all mankind re-established on the interstellar scale after mankind entered the era of opening up the universe.And this is also until the publication of "The History of Human Universe Development", it is generally recognized as the shortest-lived, and it is also the first global regime that collapsed in a people's uprising.

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