Neverland

Major Yan's leave lasted three and a half days.

What puzzled Xu Muzhou was that after Qin Wei's last report, she never mentioned meeting him again, but she called Yan Cen over for two meetings on the way, talking about new mineral energy .

Everything is in order and functioning normally.

The B-2 sub-experiment has come to an end, and the focus of the experiment at this stage has shifted to recording data. Xu Muzhou no longer needs to stare at the office all the time, and has some leisure time at his disposal.

Xu Muzhou is very cautious in his work, he seldom runs around during working hours, and most of the time he follows his colleagues in an orderly manner.And since he finished his report at Qin Wei's, he even moved back to his own dormitory.

But Xu Muzhou changed the daily three meals from the small canteen of the scientific research group to the large canteen.

Qin Wei came back to Area C from the slums. She is a soldier who has become a monk halfway. She has no obvious class airs. Compared with Qin Zhiyuan, she is much easier to get along with.

Xu Muzhou didn't get close to the higher-ups these days, but Qin Wei was still a very enlightened "monarch" just by listening to the words of the ordinary soldiers below.

This is a good thing for Xu Muzhou, at least if he wants to deliberately inquire about the news, others will not be suspicious of him because he can't talk about Qin Wei.

It's just that Xu Muzhou has always felt that if the severity of Zhong Lu's sky falling down was transformed into Qin Wei's obsession with Song Yan, then this obsession should at least be traceable, not to mention that everyone knows it. .

But in reality, it didn't. In fact, apart from their special scientific research team, ordinary people's impression of Qin Wei was only at the level of "calm, rational, and well-developed mind".

At most, they guessed about Qin Wei's annual trip before her unshakable birthday—and most of them were wrong.

If it wasn't for the fact that the hydrangeas on Xu Muzhou's wrist were not deceiving, Xu Muzhou felt that Qin Wei had already forgotten about Song Yan.

Yan Cen still stayed put these days, except for swiping his ID card to go around the file room, he didn't take any extra actions on his own initiative.

In the central base, neither Xu Muzhou nor Yan Cen found any traces of Song Yan.

It seems that only the bracelet that Xu Muzhou saw on Qin Wei's wrist became the only link between Qin Wei and Song Yan.

The check-in machine in front of him issued a qualified notification sound, Xu Muzhou came back to his senses, and checked the check-in records that popped up on the screen.

——This is the No. 18 day of Researcher Xu's work.

Behind Xu Muzhou there were people waiting in line to get off work. He restrained his emotions, turned his head and nodded to a few colleagues, and ended his day's work while exchanging greetings of "see you tomorrow".

The progress of the clean-up task has been silent since the last time. Qin Wei went out twice with her personal guards halfway, as if to attend some kind of meeting. She went there for three to five days, so Xu Muzhou had a very good chance of getting in touch with her. limited.

Yan Cen became busy for some reason, he only observed Qin Wei's attitude towards Song Yan in the first few days, and then let go, as if he had completely forgotten about Song Yan, he started to find another way, busy with other things Come.

The newly obtained minerals need to allocate resources, and when Qin Wei is not at the base, Yan Cen also has to act as an agent for a little bit of military affairs.

Another thing that surprised Xu Muzhou was that Yan Cen changed from his past style of not getting involved with the world line, and made several decisions for Qin Wei when she was away.

Including changing the existing focus of mineral collection, rectifying the black market and opening up the trading of low-level resources in Area C, etc., Yan Cen even took the time to reply to an email sent from Area A for Qin Wei, and declined an email led by Area A. "Joint Economic Contract".

"Joint education industry?" Xu Muzhou was holding a bowl of honeydew melon in his arms, with a small bulge on his cheek, sitting cross-legged on the bed, and frowned at Yan Cen, who was on the opposite side of the video.Suspiciously said: "Is there such a good thing?"

"The old man in District A thought Qin Wei was a little girl, so he lied to her." Yan Cen, opposite the video, was writing a report at his desk. He didn't seem to like technology, so he took a stack of paper and was writing it by hand.The communicator was taken off the wrist and placed on the corner of the table diagonally opposite, which happened to be an angle where he could be photographed.

"What kind of education industry? It sounds good to rebuild the human society of the old era, but it's a business." Yan Cen said without raising his head: "After the new era, human society has been disconnected for a long time. The original education The level has been dropped a lot... If it was so many decades earlier, at least there are still people left before the disaster who can pass on word of mouth. Nowadays, people from the old era are almost dead, except for the rich and the rich. People in high-level districts who are not powerful, who can say that they have any kind of education."

Xu Muzhou silently stuffed another piece of honeydew melon into his mouth and listened to him.

"What's more, the human society in the new era can't be called a society... there are class gaps, resource inclination is serious, and even the currency has not been unified. Most transactions in the black market are still bartering, and a small number of transactions involve all kinds of cash. What a The metal tokens from the area, and the cash coupons from the B area." Yan Cen sneered: "I don't know how many editions of currency have been printed, and you don't know what currency is in the black market until the market opens every day. It can be circulated. The risk of bartering is lower than that of barter. The thing that can be abolished at any time is waste paper... This kind of market economic system that can collapse at any time has not been fully understood, and it is simply impossible to start any industry. nonsense."

Xu Muzhou's chewing speed slowed down.

"The level of science and technology in the new era is indeed cutting-edge, but this cutting-edge can only be achieved when resources are extremely concentrated, and this is the only place where it can be saved. The rest of the operation is in a mess. Let's not talk about the black market, where fish and dragons are mixed together. People in the slums have eaten their last meal, and whoever has the spare time to send their children to some kind of education, his idea of ​​this agreement is empty, let alone the so-called benefits later." Yan Cen finished writing a piece of paper and put it Put it on the last page, and continued: "The cake is drawn really big."

The sarcasm in Yan Cen's words was too obvious, Xu Muzhou swallowed the honeydew in his mouth silently, not daring to argue.

"The old thing probably found out that Qin Wei brought her back from outside, and thought she was easy to deceive, and made such a clumsy game." Yan Cen continued writing: "In the new era, each of the six districts has currency. , the exchange of currencies is not interoperable, and there is no standard for currency conversion like in your time. It is nonsense to want to create a joint economy. What's more, the six districts are basically different, and the core concepts and methods of governing the districts are also different. If it is true What kind of joint education is to be done, and how to unify the educational foundation?"

"It's really... one step at a time." Xu Muzhou said with emotion.

"The goal of the old man has never been about civilization. This is a business." Yan Cen concluded: "It's still the dirty one."

Yan Cen's voice paused, the pen in his hand was probably out of water, Yan Cen shook it, drew two more strokes on the paper, threw away his hand in a bad mood, and opened the drawer to take out a new pen Come.

"Under the circumstances that the currency cannot be unified, if you want to do business across regions, the only way is to exchange things. However, some of the 'things' in District C are more armed technology, and the main business scope of District A is not here. New Era Here, resources are the foundation of development, and they are also the lifeblood of people like them." Yan Cen said: "...the old man has taken a fancy to Qin Wei's resources."

Qin Wei has the largest armed force in the six districts, and of course she has obtained more mineral resources. If someone wants to calculate this, Xu Muzhou is not surprised.

"If this business can be done, it will not only mean that Qin Wei will spend some resources to partner with him, but it will also mean that there will be leaks in the current iron barrel management of District C. There are only pure scientific research talents and armed forces in District C. If If we really want to start an 'education industry', the educational talents will of course come from District A with stronger comprehensive capabilities, and let the leaders of other districts intervene in the spiritual management of the people in their jurisdiction... If this kind of business is agreed, it is called being sold Even counting the money for others." Yan Cen said: "Besides, the old guy's calculations are probably more than that-if they are really asked to start, then the audience of this business can only go around in the high-end area. Once the business starts, there will be no Looking back, if you want the bleeding to be worthwhile, then you can only bite the bullet and go down, and if you can tear off one, it is one."

"Qin Wei's style of handling things is starting to make people fearful. The leaders of the six districts are not fools." Yan Cen said: "Someone wants to keep her current status, so she wants to pull her to the same level as that group of people.... Doing such a game is not enough to be laughed at."

"What kind of mess are you doing?" Yan Cen said, "It's serious to make people eat first."

Xu Muzhou was holding the bowl, with wonderful expressions on his face, ranging from stunned to unbelievable, and finally only shocked.

It has only been a few days since Yan Cen came to this world line, and he has actually grasped the virtues of the sixth district so clearly. This kind of overall view and insight is really a bit outrageous.

"So..." Xu Muzhou asked dryly, "That's why you opened up low-level resource trading?"

Yan Cen hummed, and said: "Qin Wei originally had the idea of ​​rectifying the black market, and this is what she started to do before. But the black market can't be completely banned-the people below can't starve to death. It's better to be sparse, it's better to set a standard and let them live on the bright side."

"The black market is mixed with fish and dragons. There are everything. There are no rules. There are many cases of gangsters eating gangsters." Yan Cen said: "No rules means freedom. Some people can earn money and live happily. Some people make a careless move. But the former are a minority after all, so it’s better to push forward, set market standards to open up the trading of low-level resources, and then collect taxes in proportion.” Yan Cen finally finished writing what was in his hand, he put down the pen, and looked at it The content on the paper said: "Use this tax to support a small army, and supervise the market in the name of supervising the trading of resources...With a system and a stable market, you can move on to the next step."

"What's next?" Xu Muzhou asked subconsciously.

"Standardize the currency." Yan Cen said: "The market is stable, which means that there is a stable trading system. As long as there are stable input and output channels, it is not difficult to unify the currency—after that, it will be Qin Wei's business. "

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Xu Muzhou held back for a long time, and found that there was no room for him to intervene, so he could only ask: "...What are you writing about?"

"A feasibility report on open resource categories and related tax standards." Yan Cen said.

Xu Muzhou was completely speechless - he really didn't expect that Yan Cen had the talent to govern the country.

Yan Cen made a lot of decisions like this, and he would pick and deal with matters that Qin Wei had already started, or that had already taken shape.His vision is cruel and poisonous, and his decision-making ability is quite high, so that during the period when Qin Wei was not at the central base, all these decisions combined together had a considerable impact.

Especially after knowing Qin Wei's suspected "protagonist" identity, from Xu Muzhou's point of view...it seems like Yan Cen is pushing the world line for Qin Wei.