Meng Chao snorted softly. "Don't the mega corporations and peerless elites have enough 'freedom' right now?"
"To the supporters of the theory that the sun never sets, it's far from enough," Shao Zhengyang said without batting an eyelid.
Shao Zhengyang said without batting an eyelid. "Everyone knows that the nine great mega corporations are existences that can do whatever they want in Dragon City. The Survival Committee was created by them, and it's a puppet that carries out their will. A large portion of the Red Dragon Army's military budget is controlled by the mega corporations.
"But as Dragon City stabilizes and develops, tens of millions of citizens' trust and support for the Survival Committee will increase day by day. The puppets might also awaken to their own will, just like how the ancient people's mother puppets did.
"Right now, the nine great mega corporations might have monopolized most of the key areas and important departments, but at the end of the day, more small and medium-sized enterprises and new forces of power are popping up like bamboo shoots after a rain. They're competing against the large corporations.
"The mega corporations might have their own private armed forces, but these armed forces are under the unified command of the Survival Committee. They can't be considered as completely independent paramilitary organizations.
"And while the peerless fighters have their own corporations in name, they are also bound by all sorts of laws and audit regulations. They can't use the corporations' assets as they please and just use them for their own cultivation. And when they kill Apocalyptic Beasts in the wild or discover crystal mines, they have to hand over a large portion of the monster materials and raw crystals as hunting tax, resource tax, and income tax.
"Theoretically speaking, even the creators of the nine great mega corporations can't just take over the resources of a weed in Hidden Fog.
"All resources belong to Dragon City, and every plant has to be distributed and used according to the rules. Even if the rules are personally created by the peerless fighters and are very beneficial to them, as time passes, the peerless fighters who keep getting more and more arrogant find it hard to accept.
"Hence, the supporters of the theory that the sun never sets believe that these laws and regulations have severely restricted the development of the mega corporations and the superhumans' enthusiasm to cultivate, explore, and expand.
"Or rather, when we're in Monster Mountain Range and we're protecting our common home — Dragon City, we have to be united, and we have to be united. From the peerless fighters to the normal soldiers, we have to obey these rules so that everyone is equal. There's nothing wrong with this.
"But when the battlefield expands from Monster Mountain Range to the entire Other World, it won't be appropriate for us to be conservative and rigidly adhere to these rules.
"The Other World is huge, and the spirit energy magnetic field is incredibly complicated. There might also be all sorts of strange civilizations that are even more dangerous than the monster civilization and secret realms that are even more dangerous than Hidden Fog Domain. If we don't use higher profits and greater freedom to stimulate the enthusiasm of the businesses and superhumans, it might be difficult for us to fight against each other and march into the depths of the Other World like we did during the Monster War.
"And if a mega corporation sets up a forward operating base in the Other World that is thousands of kilometers away from Dragon City and comes into contact with or even conquers the locals, they will have to report everything to Dragon City and get the approval from the Survival Committee. Then, they will have to imitate Dragon City's laws in the Other World, where the environment, customs, and ecosystem are different from Dragon City's. This rigid system will definitely not be able to adapt to the environment and will fail.
"So, the Never Setting Sun Theory believes that we should give more power to the superhumans and mega corporations. With the mega corporations as the core, we can bring out the efficiency of the businesses and the initiative of the superhumans so that we can better colonize the Other World.
"To be more specific, while we maintain the status quo in Monster Mountain Range, we should lower the hunting tax, resource tax, income tax, and other taxes on the superhumans and businesses outside Monster Mountain Range. In the words of the supporters of the Never Setting Sun Theory, we should call them exorbitant taxes.
"After all, everything beyond Monster Mountain Range doesn't belong to Dragon City. No matter how much the businesses and superhumans can steal, to Dragon City, it's just a free profit. Even if they only pay 1% tax, it's still very reasonable.
"On the other hand, the supporters of the Never Setting Sun Theory believe that once the superhumans and mega corporations leave Monster Mountain Range, they don't need to obey Dragon City's laws as long as it's necessary and doesn't harm the interests of Dragon Citizens. In fact, the mega corporations can set up their own rules based on the customs of the Other World to temporarily replace the laws.
"Third, to better promote the glory of Earth's civilization and open up the Other World's market as well as steal the Other World's resources, the mega corporations can expand the scale and level of their armed forces based on the actual situation." Besides, if we get into a conflict with a new Other World civilization, we should use the armed forces of the corporations and not the Red Dragon Army as the core fighting force. After all, compared to normal people, the Red Dragon Army, which is as large and bloated as a herbivorous dinosaur, is made up of superhumans, has a lot of resources, and has outstanding fighting strength.
Meng Chao's pupils shrank.
"It sounds like the mega corporations that fulfill these three conditions are truly mega corporations!"
He mumbled. "It's no wonder why they're called the Never Setting Sun Theory. This sort of mega corporation is basically the strengthened version of the East India Corporation from the Empire where the sun never sets. One mega corporation can stir up a war and mobilize the resources of the entire civilization to serve the interests of the mega corporation!"
Meng Chao sighed in his heart.
The inertia of history was incredibly strong.
After he returned from the apocalypse, he did everything he could and changed a lot of things.
But a lot of history continued to move forward along the ruts of fate and headed toward a future that was destined to be destroyed.
In his previous life, Dragon City was a place where ideas like the Never Setting Sun Theory were prevalent.
The nine great mega corporations expanded uncontrollably in a deformed manner, and they gradually stood above the entire civilization.
At that time, the Red Dragon Army was just as Shao Zhengyang said. They were huge but bloated herbivorous dinosaurs. They only had numbers, but they lacked quality. They could not take down any tough opponents, and they were often treated as pushovers by the elites of the Other World's locals. They were just a garrison or public security force that curled up in their developing lands.
At that time, the most elite armed forces in Dragon City were the paramilitary organizations that belonged to the nine great mega corporations.
The Ghost Tribe that Meng Chao joined in his previous life was a special force controlled by a mega corporation.
Meng Chao had gone through training in the Black Skull Training Camp and the training in the Ghost Tribe. He had actually managed to become a third-class fighter even though he was in his twenties and had a severely injured body when he was in high school.
The mega corporations at that time had outstanding biochemical technology and scientific cultivation methods. They also monopolized most of the cultivation resources.
Compared to the nine great mega corporations of today, they were more than ten times stronger!
Unfortunately …
Dragon City's civilization was still destroyed when it was ruled by the nine great mega corporations.
"What do you think, Meng Chao?"
Shao Zhengyang observed Meng Chao's expression and asked, "Do you think that the theory of the sun never setting makes sense? Based on this theory, as the youngest Heaven Realm superhuman in Dragon City and your family's Superstar, you really had the chance to fight for a great cause that no one has ever done before in the boundless Other World beyond Monster Mountain Range! "
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath.
If it were another young man who had achieved success and whose burning chest was filled with lofty aspirations, they would have been deeply attracted by the picture described by the Theory of the Never Setting Sun.
Even if they faced the leaders of the military, even if they did not say anything, the flames of ambition would definitely burn in their eyes.
But even if there was fire in Meng Chao's eyes, it was the demonic fire of the apocalypse that would destroy Dragon City.
This demonic fire was enough to extinguish all his ambitions and extravagant hopes.
"The Never Setting Sun Empire still collapsed in the end."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "Even at its peak, you could see the U.S. Flag flying high in every corner of Earth where the sun shone. The cannons and battleships with this flag could do whatever they wanted in any country in the four seas. A single corporation in the empire could easily conquer and enslave millions of people from backward races. In fact, they could even control their thoughts and beliefs.
"However, such a powerful, insufferably arrogant and seemingly eternal empire continued to decline and fall apart in the next two to three hundred years.
"It lost most of its industries and military power, lost most of its overseas territories, lost the ability to export culture, and lost its influence in the financial, economic, and legal fields …
"Before we transmigrated, the once illustrious global empire had already shrunk into an insignificant third-rate country. The efforts it made to regain its former glory made it look like an exhausted clown jumping up and down.
"I don't want to see Dragon City's civilization end up like the Never Setting Sun Empire.
"If we only pursue short-term benefits for thirty to fifty years, the excitement of being famous, and the glory of the empire that only exists on the surface, then the Never Setting Sun Empire might be an excellent teacher.
"But what about thirty to fifty years later? What about one or two hundred years later? What about one thousand years later?
"You have to understand that if the mother wasn't lying, all the civilizations and ecosystems on Earth might have been destroyed in a full-scale nuclear war.
"In other words, we won't be able to return to Earth within three to five hundred years. We can only treat the Other World as our only home.
"We'll need at least five hundred years of preparation before we can gather enough resources to return to the devastated Earth. Then, we'll start rebuilding our entire civilization from the grass, trees, and bricks.
"If we imitate the ideals and path of the Never Setting Sun Empire, will we be able to help us conquer the Other World and rule this complicated and dangerous place for five hundred years?"
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