Human Empire, the new recovery zone, the third war zone, the edge of the West haze, no atmosphere, extremely harsh environment of resource planet 223.


    The West haze boundary is a small boundary with a diameter of 3 billion kilometers. The stars here are still in their early youth, so that all the seven planets around the stars are involved in the violent gravitational changes, and they can not form a dense atmosphere, so there is no habitable planet.


    The ever-changing gravity and crustal movement, as well as the tearing up of countless planets and the material exchange caused by the impact of various meteorites, make several satellites in the Western Hemisphere rich in rare metals and rare crystals.


    Xilan boundary is the most remote small boundary in the third theater, and resource planet 223 is the most remote planet in Xilan boundary.


    It is rich in a kind of precious "nickel fused spar vein", which can be refined into high explosive bombs, greatly enhance the destruction ability of shells, and even increase the destruction radius by more than 100%.


    Therefore, after seizing the west land from the holy alliance, the Empire also sent a small fleet stationed on resource planet 223.


    The task of this fleet is not to defend resource planet 223, the expeditionary base, in the middle of a possible counterattack by the holy alliance. It was never thought that they could do this.


    They are just "engineering soldiers" responsible for cleaning up and rebuilding the mining bases destroyed by the Holy Alliance in the extremely harsh environment of the barren world.


    This is the mission of the ninth fleet of the third theater of the imperial expeditionary force, also known as the "red cloud fleet".


    The red cloud fleet is a miscellaneous army, a local armed force, or, in the scornful tone of those powerful and powerful men in the imperial capital, a "mob made up of a bunch of Hicks" is the epitome of thousands of miscellaneous troops.


    The chiyun fleet came from chiyun kingdom. It was not until the end of the "era of Empire development" five hundred years ago that it was conquered by the Empire, or, to put it mildly, "joined the Empire".


    Because at that time, in the face of the mighty army of the Empire falling from the sky, the rulers of chiyun Kingdom very wisely chose to surrender. In addition, chiyun Kingdom itself was a land of poor mountains and rivers and extremely poor resources. There was nothing of value except for the starving billions of people. Therefore, the Empire generously gave chiyun a considerable degree of autonomy, As long as chiyunjie paid taxes and troops regularly, obeyed the orders of his majesty and the Senate when the Empire needed them, and sent troops to attack the enemy with the Empire.


    Even if it is so "generous" and "benevolent", the past five hundred years have been extremely difficult for the people in chiyun and even the people who cultivate immortals.


    In addition to the taxes paid directly to the imperial court, the families of the four general election emperors and Marquises also continued to invent their own names and beat to the marrow in the form of various "fees" and "special taxes".


    From dozens of extremely developed industrial worlds in central Xinghai, a large number of magic weapons and industrial products continuously produced on the assembly line poured into chiyun, completely destroying the original rough and backward but relatively independent industrial system of chiyun, and firmly binding chiyun to the most downstream of the interest chain of the powerful and powerful, Reduced to a trivial component on the pipeline.


    Five hundred years ago, even though the technology was relatively backward, chiyun could still refine crystal armor, armed combat shuttle and even star warship in large quantities, and even refine one or two of the simplest magic weapon units of Xinghai jump.


    Today, however, on the surface, all kinds of magic weapons used by the chiyun people are more exquisite, gorgeous and powerful, but no crystal armor is chiyun''s own brand any more - all crystal armor factories in chiyun are purchased by the sects of the four election emperors'' families, smashing all those "outdated" assembly lines, replacing them with "generous, generous and powerful" by powerful and powerful people It is a brand new assembly line of "free donation".


    Naturally, the core technologies of these magic assembly lines are all in the hands of those powerful people in the center of Xinghai, and they will never be known by chiyun people.


    What''s more, these magic weapon factories can no longer produce a complete set of crystal armor. They can only refine 5% of the components on the crystal armor, and the rest 95% are transported by Xinghai central and then assembled on the spot.


    As a result, chiyunjie''s independent industrial system completely collapsed, lost all bargaining power, was strangled by the powerful and powerful members of the Central Committee of Xinghai, and became the other party''s magic weapon dumping place and resource supply place.


    What''s more sad is that apart from human resources, the red cloud kingdom does not have any resources rich enough to supply the whole empire.


    The price of labor here has been suppressed to an appalling level. The masters from the center of Xinghai said that the magic factory was set up here because of the cheap price of human resources and the honest and hardworking workers in chiyunjie. Otherwise, the masters could go away and set up factories in other worlds, or even replace all human workers with psionic puppets.


    They are here to support the workers and do good deeds for the sake of the Empire compatriots!


    When they say these words, these arrogant masters forget that it was in the dumping of hundreds of years that all kinds of despicable tactics were used to defeat the major sects and magic weapon factories in chiyun, which made hundreds of millions of workers have no food and clothing and no way to go.


    However, the old men did not say these words empty mouthed, but sat in the bridge of the heavy cruiser to say these words. Even when they came to the ground, there was a whole crystal armor regiment to "guard the factory". What about the workers in chiyun?


    A strong chiyun worker worked hard for a year in the magic weapon factory of the fourth general election emperor''s family. He vomited blood and even his lungs withered. He still couldn''t support his family. So he had to let his wife and daughter go to the ocean to work in the entertainment club set up by the central authorities and powerful men in Xinghai, Using money full of humiliation and stinking smell to support the family - such human tragedies can be found everywhere in the red clouds of the past few hundred years.


    The powerful and powerful people in the center of Xinghai even extended their tentacles to the agricultural field of chiyun, replacing the native rice, wheat and grains in chiyun with the genetically improved "Lingdao, Lingmai" and alien crops.


    Because these "Lingdao and Lingmai" are indeed of high yield, excellent taste, and rich in various nutrients and calories. At the beginning, the grain group controlled by the emperor and Marquis of the fourth general election also gave high subsidies, so that the workers who worked hard in factories and earned meager wages could only afford the food they provided.


    As a result, these foreign grain groups expanded rapidly in chiyunjie. In a short span of 100 years, they merged the small and medium-sized grain groups of chiyunjie and acquired large areas of land from farmers, just as they did to the magic industrial system of chiyunjie a hundred years ago.


    Chiyunjie is called "autonomy", but it is a member of the empire after all. There is no way to formulate independent laws to prevent foreign invaders from conquering cities and lands. We can only watch these foreign food groups dominate.


    When most of the land and seed sources were controlled by foreign grain groups, these guys finally came to the end. They wielded the sword of law and changed the genes of Lingdao and Lingmai by secret methods, so that all seeds could only be harvested once, but could not be sown again.


    In other words, chiyunjie has lost all of its crop seeds. If it needs to sow, it can only continuously purchase from foreign grain groups.


    Even if the chiyun people want to secretly test and cultivate their own excellent seeds, they are surprised to find that the "alien cash crops" presented to them by foreign groups in the past, which allowed them to plant on a large scale and recycle fruits at a high price, can greatly change the soil composition!


    It has been polluted by these alien cash crops for a hundred years. Now the most fertile soil in the red cloud is only suitable for planting the seeds of foreign food groups. If other seeds are sown, even if they can sprout, they will only wither in a large scale.


    At the beginning, outsiders paid a high price to buy the sour and astringent "cash crop fruit" from them. They also said that when the rich people in Xinghai central liked to taste this kind of taste most, chiyun people even laughed. It was strange to laugh at the rich people in Xinghai central.


    Until today, chiyun people wake up from a dream, and finally know what the "bitter fruit" is.


    What the rich people in Xinghai taste is not the juice of the fruit, but the taste of their blood.


    It''s too late to wake up.


    From industry to agriculture, to the whole cultivation system, chiyunjie was invaded and destroyed by the outsiders in the center of Xinghai, and fell into the hands of others.


    What''s the point even if the Lord of red cloud still has the nominal "autonomy"?


    This is even worse than direct aggression.


    Because after the direct invasion, it is bound to establish a government, which has the obligation to govern and protect the local people.


    But now, all are economic activities, all are done by non-governmental sects, they devour all the benefits, and all the "obligations" are still in the autonomous government of chiyun, on the heads of those stunned Lords.


    The life and death of the chiyun people, regardless of the affairs of the central government of Xinghai, are all concerned about the local leaders'' "cruel and ruthless, oppressive too much". At most, they can''t make a scene. The families of the four general election emperors and Marquis leaked some leftovers from their teeth to be used as relief supplies, that''s all.


    The ordinary people in the red cloud world live such a life of being short of food, precarious and struggling on the edge of life and death.


    And the practitioners of chiyun are no better than ordinary people, even worse.


    In the past, when there was an independent industrial and agricultural system, a large number of immortal cultivators were needed to support all fields of chiyunjie. The immortal cultivators had a very high status and great interests, and they were the local tyrants.


    But now, with the surging tide of foreign capital and technology, the first thing to break down is the dignity and dream of local immortals.


    Even if they are loyal to the outside world for a lifetime, or even let their children and grandchildren work for the outside world for three or five lifetimes, they are still the villains in the eyes of others, or even a dog in the backwater, and will never be able to enter the core management of the outside world, The management is always airborne from the center of Xinghai!


    This is the fate of chiyun cultivator for 500 years.