Liu Yun didn't look at her already neurotic boss in the office; she sighed, feeling that her job was coming to an end.
Having graduated from a top ten university in the world and with both parents as employees of the company, she had landed this enviable job. However, Liu Yun felt that was all there was to it; the salary wasn't high, and under the exaggerated housing prices in the Imperial Capital, even considering benefits like housing funds, buying a ho was still very difficult.
Moreover, the job was simple and boring, and she couldn't utilize the various skills she had learned at the company.
Her bosses only cherished her educational background and her pleasant appearance. The company didn't need a strong woman; they wanted a decorative vase.
Although the company was failing, Liu Yun still felt a secret delight seeing Sui Rong defeated.
She looked at her smartphone's news feed and saw a picture of Bai Zhongqi, dressed in a white Chancellor's uniform, looking vibrant and commanding. She had also studied in San Francisco, but she attended Berkeley, which was much better than Bai Zhongqi's university. Liu Yun even thought that she might have seen the current Chancellor of Iridium Star sowhere before returning to her country.
However, currently, she was just a secretary in a troubled company, while he was a person who could stir up significant events worldwide.
While the major telecommunications providers faced rgers, the layoffs turned out to be not as severe as expected. Liu Yun just read a report that the state was planning to rge the major operators into the CNCS — C country Network Communication Service Group.
The new company would monopolize all telecommunications and internet services, though the internet service would be a non-profit business subsidized by the governnt. The company would focus on custor service and promote its businesses extensively.
So paid services would still exist, such as providing videos, audios, news, and literary works, but the core services of the company would be entirely free.
Thus, the company was set to leverage the Sky Net platform to expand into more diverse business areas, including investing in various internet service peripherals and even ventures completely unrelated to telecommunications, to subsidize the inexhaustible need for free Sky Net access.
Liu Yun knew the magnitude of the challenges, but she was even more astonished by the nation's bold initiative this ti.
The staff of major telecommunications providers would be reallocated to various new ventures. Similarly, at a recent press conference, the Star Alliance also announced several new investnt projects.
These ranged from the production of high-energy-density batteries used in various electronics, vehicles, and devices, a vast number of industrial and service robots, new software industries based on Iridium Star technology, new-generation transport including flying cars and maglev light rails, spacecraft manufacturing, near-Earth aviation production, smart electronics industry, and even sustainable agriculture.
These new industries would absorb labor from those being phased out.
Even more astonishingly, the Star Alliance had announced their space colonization plan; once C country joined the Alliance, its citizens would have opportunities to settle on other planets. Initially, relocation was mainly to Lunar Palace City and Ruyi City, but if new habitable planets were discovered, then potentially millions could embark on journeys across the stars into space.
Liu Yun felt very excited thinking about all this, and she slightly regretted not signing up for the first batch of a thousand workers program offered by Iridium Star.
The company would likely arrange sothing for her, but Liu Yun didn't want to stay in such an environnt anymore. It was a stirring age filled with opportunities everywhere, and she decided not to bend to family and circumstances but to pursue her own value.
In Lingxiao Palace in Ruyi City, Bai Zhongqi was also satisfied with his achievents. The interest groups he targeted were not limited to a few people within the telecommunications system.
Many interest groups felt the intense pressure from Iridium Star, realizing that they were not opposing any previous high-level authorities but an entity comprising unimaginable technological prowess and power — the United Empire of Iridium Star.
Xiang Fei, as a representative of the pro-Alliance faction, had directly introduced Iridium Star's power, dealing a fatal blow to the vested interest groups, and an earthquake had begun that would spread to every corner of this country.
Xiang Fei deeply understood this, even feeling intimidated by the power of Iridium Star himself. A re order from Bai Zhongqi had been enough to paralyze all telecommunications operators, leaving them helpless.
"Actually, this is the natural order of things," Dr. Ye Qing said to Xiang Fei.
The two were once again traveling by spaceship to Ruyi City, though each on different missions. The flights between Ruyi City and Imperial Capital were now as frequent as once a day, primarily carrying governnt officials.
Xiang Fei remarked, "The old saying goes, 'asking a tiger for its skin.' Although I personally trust the Chancellor of Iridium Star sowhat, we are too weak in front of Iridium Star, with no room for resistance."
Ye Qing naturally replied, "Do other countries have an option? The Star Alliance is the best alternative we have. Iridium Star is not without ambitions for Earth, they just chose this thod. I do support the Star Alliance approach. Sure, the Iridium people gained trendous power through Star Alliance, but if they had chosen to conquer by force, they could have easily done so.
With the Star Alliance thod, our nation continues to exist, our culture continues to exist. Not only for us, but Iridium Star is also undergoing significant changes. What ultimately erges is not purely Iridium Star or Earth, but a rged entity. I think this is a good thing."
Xiang Fei, looking at the calm Ye Qing, asked, "Do you think we and Iridium Star will eventually beco one country?"
Ye Qing replied, "Star Alliance itself is already a type of nation, sowhat similar to a federation. As mber states, we still retain so sovereignty.
Perhaps in thirty years, when we have mastered most of the technology transferred to us by Iridium Star and achieved a higher social order, we can safely say that at that ti Iridium Star is Earth and Earth is Iridium Star and Star Alliance represents Earth."
Xiang Fei chuckled, "It seems you're more radical than us pro-Alliance faction mbers; you'd be considered part of the integration faction. Do you really believe Iridium people can integrate with us Chinese?"
Ye Qing's eyes twinkled slightly, but her expression remained the sa. "They definitely will because there are no barriers. We are similar ethnic groups with similar languages and values. Once genetic optimization is liberated after biological enhancents, we'll be even more alike.
After having t many Iridium people, you've seen that they do not discriminate against us, they accept us well, and they are completely loyal to the Chancellor, who is actually a citizen of C country. And for so unknown reason, it's only the population in this fleet from Iridium Star, so they'll use their advanced technology to assimilate us, and we will use our volu to assimilate them.
It will definitely be a process of integration in the end."
Xiang Fei nodded and smiled, "We'll see in thirty years. Anyway, after joining the Alliance, we will have over a hundred years more life expectancy, so that day might not be so far away for us."
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