Fortunately, the Dragon Citizens at that time were still very ambitious.
They did not have the feeling that they were at the end of the Great War of the Other World in his previous life.
After half a century of brutal war, the people in Dragon Citizens were fierce, and they respected the strong. The enterprises, the military, and the citizens were all very bloodthirsty.
With the might of victory, the idea of "marching into the depths of the Other World" soon became the mainstream.
The idea of "defending Monster Mountain Range" could not gain the favor of most citizens.
But when it came to the problem of how they should march and who should be the main force, there were many different viewpoints. They opposed each other and refused to back down.
It was just as Shao Zhengyang had told Meng Chao before. Should the mega corporations be the main force or should the Red Dragon Army be the core to expand outward? This was a problem that needed to be solved before Dragon City entered the next stage of development.
"Enterprises are the most scientific, logical, and superior organization structure in the one million years of human civilization's development!"
Meng Chao had seen some of the supporters of the Theory of the Sun Never Setting online, and they were advocating it. [Corporations are the most groundbreaking, the most proactive, and the most efficient in seizing and using resources. They are the organizations that promote the development of technology and the expansion of civilization. Corporations gather together human intelligence, courage, perseverance, and judgment with great foresight. They have all the best qualities, and they gather all the elites of humanity.
"From the moment a company is born, it is faced with endless and never-ending competition. Therefore, companies never resist. They even look forward to the competition with joy. They look forward to fighting their way through mountains of daggers and seas of fire. In the end, the weak companies will all collapse, and the strongest companies, led by the strongest human elites, will push our civilization to the peak of power!
"Think about Earth. During the Industrial Revolution, the empire where the sun never sets used enterprises as the wheels to drive the invincible war chariots forward. They conquered the world and crushed everything.
"During the same period, the eastern civilization killed the sprouts of enterprises while they were still in their infancy. They were conservative and stuck in their old ways, so they missed the most important revolution in the history of Earth's civilization. They missed the Great Voyage, Great Discovery, and Great Conquest, which brought us three hundred years of depravity and sorrow!
"My friends, the era we live in today is very similar to Earth during the early stages of the Great Voyage Era. Dragon City's civilization and the empire where the sun never sets have countless similarities. This is our destiny. No, this is our mission!
"Shouldn't we learn from the lessons of our predecessors and seize this once-in-a-lifetime chance of the Other World's Great Voyage Era? Under the lead of the nine great mega corporations, we should spread the light of Dragon City's civilization everywhere in the Other World and create a new and even greater empire where the sun will never set."
This theory was very provocative.
The nine great universities' performance during the zombie crisis, the overthrow of Blood Alliance's cruel rule, the Monster War, and the other series of survival battles could be said to be the pillars of Dragon City.
Hence, many citizens supported the theory that the sun would never set. They believed that the nine great universities would definitely lead Dragon City's civilization to explore a wider world and create even greater glory.
But the small and medium-sized enterprises that gradually developed, the Red Dragon Army that kept rising to power, and the new powerful fighters who could not accept the fact that a large number of rare cultivation resources were occupied by peerless fighters gradually gathered together. Through the fights to the death, they unified their thoughts and built up friendships. In fact, they even formed an alliance of interests that could not be broken.
They straightened their backs and voiced their opinions.
"Indeed. The historical experience from Earth tells us that when enterprises develop rationally under the supervision of the highest authority and compete in a healthy manner, they can indeed make a country stronger.
"But if enterprises cast aside or even destroy the higher level of control, ignore fairness, focus only on efficiency, and use the banner of free development to put on a show of the strong preying on the weak, vicious competition, and abnormal growth, then in the end, the enterprises will stand above everything else. This is not beneficial to anyone, including the enterprises themselves.
"After the empire where the sun never sets flourished for one hundred years, the sun that hung high above their heads finally set, and they returned to their original state. They turned into a small country shrouded in fog and covered in rain.
"Even the successor of the empire where the sun never sets, the country at the summit of the mountain, which was ten times stronger than the empire when the sun never sets, had its highest authority stolen by the enterprises. Gradually, the interests of the people and the country were given to the interests of the enterprises, and they were given to the personal interests of the few people who controlled the enterprises. In the end, in just a short few decades, the glorious empire fell apart.
"The rise, glory, and decline of the two empires proved one thing. Enterprises, especially those controlled by private individuals, especially mega corporations that have great fighting power and try to get their hands on the highest authority, are definitely not good news for a civilization!
"After all, conquering the Other World isn't our goal. Snatching and using the Other World's resources at high efficiency isn't our goal either. We should use those resources to make our civilization and even the Other World more prosperous so that all Dragon Citizens can enjoy the benefits brought by development and expansion. That's our goal.
"If we conquer the Other World for half a day and the mega corporations get more resources and grow larger, the Deity Realm superhumans become stronger, but the normal citizens still live in the dark and cramped slums and rely on monsters' water as their main source of spirit energy. Even if they cultivate their entire lives, they still won't know how to awaken to supernatural abilities. What's the point of conquering them like that?"
That was one of the more polite words.
"Over the past few decades, the Survival Committee controlled by the nine great mega corporations has made countless promises to the citizens. They promised us that we would have bigger houses, more dignified jobs, more equal statuses, that our children would get more cultivation resources, and that as long as we were willing to work hard, we would definitely have the chance to become superhumans.
"But the fulfillment of all the promises is still far away.
"Every time the normal citizens question it, the Survival Committee controlled by the nine great mega corporations will push all the blame onto the monsters.
"It's precisely because the Monster War is still going on and all the resources have to be poured into the war that the citizens have to tighten their belts and wait.
"It's precisely because the monsters often invade Dragon City that we can't build bigger houses and provide more jobs.
"It's precisely because of the high pressure of the war that Dragon City is constantly on high alert. Only the brains of superhumans can allow the Survival Committee to operate at high efficiency and at high intensity. That's why the superhuman politicians in the Survival Committee make up the majority, and among the normal citizens who make up more than 95% of Dragon City's population, there are only a handful of normal politicians who are like mascots.
"At the same time, the nine great mega corporations have been expanding, and the number of powerful people in the nine great cultivation families has been increasing. The difference between their basic necessities and the cultivation resources they enjoy and those of the normal citizens has been increasing. It's as if only the normal citizens have endured the hardships brought by the Monster War, while the so-called cultivation families have used some ingenious method to enjoy astronomical war benefits!
"Now, the Monster War has ended.
"It ended with us achieving a complete victory and plundering countless spoils of war.
"We can't help but ask, when will the Survival Committee controlled by the nine great mega corporations fulfill its promise?
"When will the Survival Committee be able to change the living environment of the normal citizens on a large scale and create more valuable and dignified jobs?
"When will the Survival Committee pay attention to the education of the poor and ensure that they have the same chances of awakening to supernatural abilities as the rich?
"When will the Survival Committee be able to change itself and reduce the number of politicians from the mega corporations and the nine great cultivation families, increase the ratio of normal politicians and military politicians so that the highest decisions in Dragon City will be able to consider the interests of all classes and groups?"
"I'm a member of the Home Party. In the past, the Colonization Party was the absolute majority in Dragon City, and we were definitely an anomaly. We were often misunderstood and even slandered by others. They thought that we were cowards who only wanted to hide in Monster Mountain Range and had no fighting spirit.
"But what I want to say is that the Home Party has never been against expanding outwards. We just want to understand the meaning behind our expansion.
"If Dragon City's expansion is just to increase the Deity Realm superhumans by one or two realms, make the corporations of the Deity Realm superhumans bigger, make their families richer, and allow the children of the Deity Realm superhumans to keep more pets so that they can feed them better steaks, the lives of the normal citizens will not change.
"Not only will the normal citizens' lives remain the same, they won't be able to enjoy the benefits of expansion. Instead, they will have to bear the price of expansion. They will have to face the rage of the Other World natives and end up as a pile of bones in the depths of the Other World that is ten thousand miles away. Isn't it the most rational choice for a normal citizen to reject this expansion and become a member of the Home Party?
"Remember this, my friends. When someone raises his arms and shouts that we should do everything in our power to conquer the Other World, you must think clearly. Are you talking about us, or are you talking about the price?"
Discussions like this could be seen everywhere online and on the streets.
Even when people went to buy vegetables on the streets, they could hear butchers swinging their butcher knives and talking loudly.
This was a turbulent time, an era of salvation.
If anyone did not worry about the country and its people, they would not be able to keep up with the trend.
In the beginning, everyone could still maintain their rationality and calmly discussed Dragon City's future.
But as their words became sharper and continued poking at each other's sore spots, everyone became angry. Their rational discussions gradually turned into a storm that swept through the entire city.
As the eye of the storm, the discussion about whether the Enclosure Law should be stopped or upgraded seemed to be rather calm.
A scandal that might shake the foundations of the nine great mega corporations exploded, and the public burst into an uproar.
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