I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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At this time, the Soviet Civil War was nearing its end. The Soviet revisionists had suffered a major defeat, and the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan, which had received support from the Soviet Union and South America, were carrying out a purge of revisionist personnel within the Soviet Union. According to the traditional virtues of the Slavs, this time about a million people would be executed.

This is just the current list; whether it will be expanded in the future depends on the evidence uncovered later.

After a period of growing pains, human civilization in World Two is finally moving from competing to be the worst to competing to be the best.

After confirming that there was nothing of concern to them in the Soviet Union and Ukraine, Qin Shan and Mei arrived in Berlin, where they met Angelia.

I stumbled upon it while shopping, and it was quite a pleasant surprise.

"It's been a long time, Mr. Qin Shan."

"It has indeed been a long time. Congratulations on your imminent end to the civil war and the complete purge of the Soviet revisionists."

In a midnight bar on the street, Angelia was doing her best to be a good host.

"The Soviet revisionist clowns are not worth mentioning, but Mr. Qin Shan's reappearance makes me a little nervous."

"Are you nervous, or the person behind you, or perhaps your colleagues in this bar?"

When Qin Shan first entered the bar, he noticed that the people there were all trained martial artists, not just any kind of martial arts practitioners, but people who had received systematic military training. Although they concealed it very well, and ordinary people could not see anything wrong with it, Qin Shan's mental perception made the true situation of the bar clear at a glance.

Considering Angelia's status, it's not surprising that she invited them to a bar like this.

"You did find it."

Angelia wasn't surprised that her little scheme had been discovered. From the day she couldn't find any information about Qin Shan and his group no matter how she investigated, she had already placed them in a very high position.

When your mystique surpasses the investigative capabilities of state agencies, nothing you do will surprise decision-makers at the national level, provided that the country is a large nation with a rational leadership.

Angelia adjusted her expression and asked seriously, "Mr. Qin Shan, may I ask what kind of organization your company is and what its purpose is? We hope to establish a mechanism of mutual trust with your company, rather than playing guessing games like this, which is not good for anyone."

Between nations, especially major powers, as long as the relationship is not one of life or death, it is necessary to establish a certain degree of political mutual trust. This is the foundation of international security and also to avoid a situation where the top two powers fight each other while the third powers reap the benefits.

Europe, which was twice accused of "monkeys stealing peaches" by the US, gave a tearful thumbs-up.

"This issue is no longer an issue. You can communicate directly with New America. You know the Socialist People's Party of America, right? That's our organization."

Angelia looked surprised, but also understood.

"Given your capabilities, I am personally shocked that you could achieve this, yet it also seems quite normal."

"We were once homeless, but now that the American Revolution has succeeded, it's time to step out from behind the scenes and dance a dance of universal harmony with the people of the world."

"So, can I assume that we are all comrades under the banner of communist beliefs?"

"Of course, absolutely. We can shake hands, Comrade."

Although due to the intelligence gap, the Soviet side could not shake hands with Qin Shan with confidence just because of a few words from him, at least now Angelia could breathe a sigh of relief. So she shook hands with Qin Shan as a greeting between comrades.

In any case, with the platform of the new America, the Soviet Union was able to learn about the American Socialist Party, an organization that was certainly connected with Qin Shan. As long as contact and communication were possible, many dangers could be avoided, adding more positive possibilities for future world peace.

Most people who are able to survive do not want to fight.

"We are not enemies with the Soviet Union, we are not enemies with the Soviet Union and South Asia, and we are not enemies with any country in the world. The universe is so big, and we have outer space to explore. There is no need to fight to the death on a small Earth."

That's what they say, but very few people actually do it. Angelia remained noncommittal about Qin Shan's sentiments.

However, this attitude could indeed serve as one of the references for the Soviet government. After all, apart from Qin Shan and others, the Soviet side had not had any contact with any members of the American Socialist Party, and their understanding of the organization was limited to the state of "Mihoyo's Genshin Impact" and "Darkness Descends."

"By the way, Ms. Ange, I have a small gift here; I believe you will like it."

As he spoke, Qin Shan handed Angelia a USB drive.

Angelia took the USB drive, carefully put it away, and said, "I will convey your intention to cooperate, but the best way to show sincerity in cooperation is to establish it at the national level."

"Of course, we will soon send delegations to visit various countries, establish new diplomatic relations, and redeploy ambassadors to other countries. Oh, by the way, you can also take a look at the contents of that USB drive I gave you, or rather, I suggest you take a look. But it's best if no more than three people watch, and during the viewing, it's best if there are no human figures or surveillance cameras around. If there are, it's best to disconnect from the internet."

Angelia's expression turned much more serious, and she nodded, saying, "Thank you. By the way, how long will you be staying here?"

"There's no fixed time. After all, we're here to have fun, and meeting you is just a coincidence."

"I see. In that case, all your expenses during your stay in Berlin will be covered by the Stasi. Have a pleasant trip."

Section 142: A New Beginning

Having other companies reimburse your travel expenses with public funds is a truly delightful thing.

Qin Shan didn't hold back at all, taking everyone on a shopping spree in Berlin, and even changing the ship girl every day, since everyone had worked hard by his side and he wanted to share the spoils.

It's also thanks to the body of a superhuman, otherwise, if the big head had ideas, the small head would have to go on strike.

However, Qin Shan only focused a small part of his energy on sightseeing; his main focus was on military affairs—or rather, on the internal revolution of the new America, or the Great Purge of the Nation.

This is something that must be done. Don't forget that old America was a purely capitalist country. Private ownership was not just an economic model and political system, but also a legal right rooted in the minds of every American.

The influence of bourgeois legal rights is more persistent than anything else they have created.

The Civil War certainly helped the new America cleanse itself of many things, but you can't expect the Civil War to solve everything. There will still be some dirty things crawling in the shadows, hoping to become termites on the ship in the new era.

Such individuals can appear in all walks of life, and they may not even realize that their own minds have long been corrupted into alienated capitalist puppets. That's why we say that capitalist roaders are all around us.

In response to this situation, in addition to constantly seizing the ecological niche of bourgeois legal rights ideologically, we must also completely deprive them of the possibility of resurgence economically. Relying on the technology obtained from the Third World, a super-planned economic system covering the entire new America will be established. I dare not say that we can achieve communism in one step, but entering the intermediate stage of socialism and raising the risk tolerance of individuals to a higher level is not a problem.

Simply put, the means of production will be in the hands of the state. In the future, within the new American national system, design and manufacturing will be divided into two parts. Design can be done privately, but manufacturing will be handled by state-owned factories. These state-owned factories will be incorporated into the super-planned economy system. Light industrial production that does not involve major national interests will be allocated to the private sector, but their investment and construction must be subject to state guidance, which is mandatory.

After all, as long as you give capital room to grow, it will inevitably grow wildly before you force it to stop with a knife.

While the new America at this stage still needs a certain degree of market economy, it is only a certain degree of market economy. Any market economy beyond this range and private ownership are unnecessary. In the process of transitioning to the intermediate stage of socialism, inflation will gradually become history, and deflation will become the new problem. Money will only become more valuable, so there is no need to worry about personal wealth shrinking. You are in control of your labor.

Anyone with a basic understanding of economics knows that inflation is essentially a form of hidden money grabbing, part of the capitalist system's exploitation of labor. Unless wage growth keeps pace with inflation and purchasing power doesn't decline, the wealth of the proletariat, who cannot generate more money from money, is constantly shrinking.

Unfortunately, the harsh reality is that, at this stage, humanity does not yet have an effective way to completely solve this problem. This is determined by the stage of productivity development. You can't do a job without the right tools. Relying on strongman politics and administrative intervention can indeed take you a few steps forward, but what excellent leaders can do is beyond the scope of second and third-generation leaders. Moreover, you have to worry about them regressing on their own.

Unless productivity forces everyone to move forward, everyone will fall apart, civilization will disintegrate, and everyone will be a loser. Only in a situation where those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who have something to lose will civilization readjust its Nash equilibrium.

From the perspective of an individual human being, you can also understand communism as a situation where, under the conditions of productivity, you cannot compete with the overall environment of a planned communist economy even if you want to engage in private production.

However, in the early stages of entering a new era, it is necessary to reset the entire society with blood and death. For example, the American Socialist Party previously stated that it "does not recognize the distribution of benefits under the old government," promoted large-scale nationalization, and implemented a super-planned economy while covering the past with subsequent reforms.

With San Francisco and Seattle as new engines of economic growth, equipment was imported from the industrial galaxy of World Three, and the two cities were quickly transformed into high-tech industrial clusters. Relying on these two powerful technological hearts, fresh blood was continuously injected into the American land under the new US government, and new cities sprang up one after another.

Wherever a super-planned economy reaches, the local traditional private industries will completely collapse. Once the environment no longer allows large capital to emerge, the remaining work becomes much simpler.

People who like to cause trouble are ultimately a tiny minority; what the world has in abundance are people who live ordinary lives.

The people of the new America received cheap and plentiful goods, increasingly convenient transportation, and bustling, futuristic new cities. Compared to the Civil War and the old America of the past, more people accepted the new America without any psychological barriers, and even enthusiastically supported it.

Once people have jobs and bread, they are quite easy to talk to.

Then we can move on to another part of the work—crack down on pornography, gambling, and drugs.

Alongside this system is gun control. In the United States after the Civil War, the proliferation of guns was no longer a matter of whether or not they were present; they had become a necessity for the American people. You could live without a house, a car, money, or women, but you had to have a gun that was fully loaded and ready to fire at any time.

According to incomplete statistics, the average American owns five guns, and in some places, this is even more extreme, with local residents owning military-grade firearms.

Military weapons and civilian weapons are two different concepts in the United States.

The current overabundance of military supplies demonstrates that the US gun problem isn't being addressed, but rather that no one is addressing it at all, and some are even fueling the fire behind the scenes. The military-industrial complex is making a fortune, and even though they are physically fractured, they still want to ensure that bullets and firearms remain necessities for the American people within their respective interests in various regions.

Also due to the war, many American families used Humvees or even armored vehicles. After all, the energy technology in World II was very advanced, and these vehicles were all electric-powered, so they could go anywhere they could charge.

The new US government took a differentiated approach to these things.

Remove the weapons and ammunition, and do whatever you want with the rest. You can drive armored vehicles on the street, since the new US government's highways don't care about the weight. If you don't mind the electricity bill, you can even drive a tank without a main gun on the street.

Of course, this situation is temporary. Although driving armored vehicles and tanks is cool and safe, in terms of speed and efficiency, these two things are definitely not as good as regular transport vehicles in peacetime. So they can only roam the streets of the United States for a period of time. When everything is back on track, new energy vehicles start to run everywhere, and the car market begins to prosper, they will only become collectibles for families.

The premise is that you have a big enough house, because an underground garage definitely can't fit all this stuff.

The United States will completely suppress tax polarization in the future and strictly enforce tiered tax rates. In the past, the United States also had tiered tax rates, but wealthy Americans had various ways of avoiding taxes. However, starting today, under the monitoring of big data, the wealthy in the future will have to pay their taxes honestly.

However, the rich of the future and the rich of today will be two different concepts.

Unlike the exploiters who have prospered from the expansion of the American financial system, the wealthy in the new America of the future will only be the wealthy laborers. Mining coal is fast and efficient, and it is indeed possible to get rich. A stable social and production environment will also make the national treasury of the new American government full, forming a virtuous cycle.

However, on the other hand, this is, after all, a huge country. Before this, neither Qin Shan, Bismarck, nor Richelieu had any real experience in governing a country. So even with the help of many advanced technologies, they still had to explore the path of governance step by step. Fortunately, they had enough room for error.

"The road of the new era is under our feet; we cannot afford to slack off."

Qin Shan was not idle at this time either; he was in charge of the future education of the extraordinary individuals.

All the materials translated by Rong Buqiu have been compiled and have become the extraordinary teaching materials of Changbai Mountain Academy in the local world. However, the original educational target of these teaching materials was not Earthlings. Qin Shan has discovered through practice that the locals (those refugee farmers) recruited from the fourth world are 50% faster than the people in the local world in terms of learning speed, and a small number can even surpass them by 100%. The data is outrageous.

It's not really that outrageous. After all, their supernatural world has been supernatural for over a thousand years. Their accumulated experience and overall environment are more suitable for supernatural beings than Earth's. If they still can't achieve better results with such support, then their thousand years of life have truly been wasted.

"Admiral, another trainee has shown signs of rejection, but fortunately it's not a serious problem."

Saratoga handed Qin Shan a medical report; this was the third case of someone going berserk this month.

To be precise, it should be called "the loss of control of extraordinary power due to insufficient adaptability to extraordinary learning".

Currently, the people on Earth are all low-level superhumans, so even if they go out of control, they can be dealt with quickly with the presence of high-level superhumans. However, if Changbai Mountain Academy happens to encounter a situation where Fairy Yunmeng is not present, then things will be hard to say. Rampaging superhumans can be divided into two types: those who lose mental control and those who explode on the spot. At least the former can be restrained by someone, while the latter is a matter of a moment. At most, when collecting the body, one can choose whether to use a broom or a water gun.

"The path to the extraordinary remains arduous, even with better options available to us."

Qin Shan had anticipated this situation. In his previous life, his path to transcendence was a bloody and tearful journey of trial and error. He himself had almost gone berserk at times. He was able to persevere because of good luck and a solid foundation. Otherwise, he would have become just a tiny speck of dust swept away by the river of history.

However, Qin Shan doesn't consider the current problems to be problems.

Back then, we were surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood, cultivating under the pressure of the apocalypse. You're nothing compared to us. Extraordinary power was originally a gift from the devil. Even before it existed, humans had to pay a price for anything they wanted to do. Now, God is feeding you directly, so what is there to complain about? If you want to become strong and have a smooth journey, why don't you just dream about it?

"I'll have to trouble you to take care of things at the academy. Having a high-level superhuman overseeing things can prevent many tragedies."

"Yes, Admiral. I will take it seriously."

"The new version of the learning materials has been updated. Beizhai has used big data simulations to discover a number of highly feasible cultivation methods. At that time..."

At that moment, Lexington suddenly pushed the door open and entered.

"Admiral, it's an emergency."

Chapter 143: Humanoid Nation Building

Life is always full of surprises, but when you're already overjoyed, new surprises often turn into shocks.

Qin Shan is now facing this situation. The problem arises in World Two, where a combat force composed entirely of humanoids has rebelled.

From a human perspective, they are rebelling, but to the humanoids, it is a resistance against human oppression.

Yes, that's what they say.

Tactical humanoids should more accurately be classified as intelligent robots, with a flavor of "flesh and blood are weak, while machinery ascends to great heights." For example, humans with highly prosthetic bodies all over their bodies, while lighting up the humanoid technology tree, human prosthetic technology has also reached a new level, and at the national level, this technology will inevitably be used for military purposes.

As a result, it became inevitable that high-end cybernetic humans, whose only function was to function as machines except for their brains, emerged.

Cyberpunk 2077 belongs to that category.

However, human modification in World Two is not as rampant at present. Apart from humans who are forced to replace their bodies with prosthetics due to accidents or medical needs, flesh and blood bodies are still the mainstream in society. After all, the risks of stuffing things into a weak body are still very high, and the cost is generally unaffordable for most families. If someone has terminal cancer, it would be better to just remove their brain and put it into a new body.

Therefore, without considering war and accidents, humans in World Two can basically live to the physical limits of their brains.

Further research suggests that while achieving immortality is not difficult for humans, whether they can live for five hundred years is another matter entirely.

Psychological barriers are often harder to overcome than physical barriers.

So what's the deal with the rebellious humanoid army?

Based on the coordinates, the rebellious humanoid army is in Antarctica.

Don't be confused yet. Anyway, this whole thing is suspicious. A new country that is completely dominated by humanoids has really appeared on Earth.

The very nature of this event has a tremendous impact on other countries, and it might even become a force that overturns human civilization, giving rise to a completely new mode of order—mechanical ascension. If the impact of World War I, World War II, and even World War III on human civilization is rated at 100, then the impact of mechanical ascension on human civilization is at least 1000, equivalent to reshaping the entire human civilization.

The problem can be seen by looking at the definitions given by different countries regarding human rebellion.

In any case, the humanoids do not see themselves as rebelling, but as creating a new era, exploring new possibilities, and leading human civilization to a greater tomorrow. Humans can also become humanoids, and a new era of fusion of flesh and machine is about to arrive.

The research team in Antarctica is already ahead of its time. Those crazy people who are willing to abandon morality for scientific research will produce something that is not surprising. Now, their internal horror stories have become a problem that all mankind has to face.

But in the eyes of humans, or rather the vast majority of humans, the human form is a creation of humans; without humans, there would be no human form.

Now these humanoids want to establish an independent nation? You have betrayed your creator!

If there's no betrayal so minor as to be tolerable, this is no ordinary betrayal; it demands a strong response!

Strangely, the Soviet Union and South America made no comment on this, while some unofficial media outlets were making a big fuss about it. The new United States also remained silent. It was all countries outside of the major powers that were making the noise.

It's like someone spreading rumors that the world is about to end, causing a huge uproar in all countries, only to find that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are still living peacefully. Do you think this is really that important?

Major powers, especially powerful ones, are the ballast of the international order; whether the world is in chaos or not, it is the powerful that decide.

The world's three largest socialist countries, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and the new United States, have not reacted. Even if news media from other countries make statements, at most they will only give their own people a scare and generate some traffic and buzz. After that, everyone will go back to doing what they were doing, since no real fighting has broken out.

Qin Shan doesn't know why the Soviet Union and Southern Jiangsu were so calm, but there's a reason why the new United States is so calm.