Chapter 191: Punisher
Crisis Year 33.
Ganymede, Pioneer Base.
Unlike the super-large scale of Moon IV Qiming Base, this Pioneer Base constructed later was much smaller in scale.
Moreover, the livestock aquaculture, grain planting, and various ground-based supply factories on Qiming Base were all absent here.
Most interestingly, at Pioneer Base, aside from a few individual management personnel and those responsible for security who came from Great Xia, most of the people here were mining workers from Australia.
And the most surprising thing was that the current person in charge of this base was not a Great Xia person, but the former Australia president, Mo Han.
In the command room, Mo Han tirelessly tossed the pure gold sphere in his hand, his face full of hesitation.
In another 7 years, after his 10-year term of office here was up, he could enter the hibernation pod provided by Xinghai, where he would spend 100 years.
He did not know what the scene would be like 100 years later, but it absolutely could not be worse than now.
Who could have thought that the damn Great Xia, as if out of malicious amusement, threw out the news of discovering a massive gold mine, yet did not mine it, instead continuing to invest all mining efforts into that damn, green oily colored metal he hated.
“Director Mo, bad news!”
‘Ding’ The gold sphere was not caught, affected by the visitor’s startled cry, it fell on the metal floor and rolled off into the distance.
The visitor was still that same deputy from back then, who was still following him now.
Mo Han sighed; nowadays, the other was also advanced in age. He could no longer muster the energy to show off in front of him.
“What’s the matter? Don’t rush, speak slowly.”
The deputy leaned on the metal door frame panting several rough breaths, his face full of urgency as he said: “Those damn workers have privately formed a Workers’ Rights Association, declaring that their salary must be doubled, daily work must not exceed 5 hours, and they must rest four days a week, otherwise they will go on strike.”
Hearing this, Mo Han was first shocked, then puzzled, then burst into helpless laughter.
What had to come would always come.
These damn fools, they surely did not still think it was the days when Great Xia had need of Australia and they could arbitrarily raise prices to reap huge profits, did they?
At this moment, a certain famous saying from who-knows-where involuntarily came to his mind.
In the end, these people could not be allowed to eat too well.
On this point, he had previously suggested to Xinghai not to offer too high a salary, but unfortunately Xinghai did not appreciate it.
Mo Han laughed while picking up the telephone.
He also wanted to see what surprised expression Chief Jin would show upon hearing this news.
Unfortunately, the other could not video call with him.
No matter, teasing her would be fine too.
The telephone was quickly answered; Mo Han did not hesitate and directly explained the situation here, then suppressed his irrepressible laughter, waiting for the sudden silence on the other end of the line.
Jin Qiaoying did not hang up the telephone; she did not mind Mo Han and directly said in the communication channel: “A’dai, connect to Colonel Li Jian.”
Soon, Li Jian’s deep voice sounded in the communication.
“This is Li Jian, hello Chief Jin.”
Jin Qiaoying’s tone remained cold, without much pause she directly said: “There are destabilizing factors among the mining workers at Pioneer Base. I am immediately dispatching Gale to Ganymede. You send people to take charge of maintaining on-site order and directly escort these people back to Blue Star Australia.”
“Yes, guaranteed to complete the order.”
Li Jian did not ask the reason at all and directly hung up the telephone afterward.
Mo Han was also startled by this scene and retracted his smile; he suddenly became a bit panicked.
This woman was so ruthless?
Such a large-scale investment, and she would just shut it down?
Did she really dare?
“Mo Han, compile a list of all workers participating in the Workers’ Rights Association. Forget it, A’dai you compile it, then communicate with Colonel Li, escort all these people back to Blue Star Australia without leaving one out, confiscate all their property, and at the same time inform the other side that Xinghai and Great Xia will add them and their direct three generations of relatives to the blacklist entirely, never to employ, forever reject entry into Great Xia, forever reject naturalization in Great Xia.”
“No, no, you can’t do this, this loss is too great. Leave it to me, I’ll handle it.
You may not understand; to put it in Great Xia terms, they are now asking for an exorbitant price, and we can bargain down to rock bottom.
According to my estimate, we only need to slightly raise their salary on the original basis to pacify this incident.”
Mo Han’s reaction was extremely urgent; these matters concerned his assessment during his term of office. If he failed the assessment, he might not get the quota to enter the hibernation pod after his term ended.
But Jin Qiaoying’s next words silenced him.
“I know; South Island Country also frequently had similar incidents in the past. This time the responsibility is mine; you can rest assured and just carry it out. I will immediately arrange other mining workers to go to Ganymede to take over their work. It will not affect your term of office assessment.”
“But…”
“No buts. Great Xia is not you all; on matters of principle, there is no room for bargaining. You know, the salary offered by Xinghai is currently the highest level in all the same industry. That’s it.”
Jin Qiaoying stopped Mo Han’s “but” and directly hung up the telephone after speaking.
Whether it was Jin Qiaoying in the Great Xia office or Mo Han at Pioneer Base, both fell into long silence after hanging up.
Clearly, Jin Qiaoying had overestimated humanity.
And Mo Han had underestimated the so-called principles of Great Xia people.
Jupiter-Mars Hub Space Force Branch.
Under Li Jian’s orders, a super large warship with an astonishing body length of 2000 meters, width of 100 meters, and height of 1200 meters slowly sailed out of the port.
Designed and manufactured by Xinghai Design Bureau, equipped with high-speed electromagnetic railgun, and featuring a cockpit system with nano buffer, as well as various technologies produced by Xinghai Laboratory, the entire hull constructed from massive amounts of silver-like super metal—a super battleship verification vessel.
Punisher.
It was fully loaded with 2000 fully armed Great Xia Space Force personnel.
At the same time, a formation of 20 sorties of Young Dragon B-types also departed the port together with it.
In Li Jian’s planning, this was a standard battleship combat squad.
This warship was named ‘Punisher’, with the implication of punishing that alien spaceship for which Great Xia had madly prepared for 49 years in the possible future extraterrestrial civilization crisis.
However, currently, this warship had not yet undergone large-scale construction and commissioning.
There was still time; at Fan Ren’s request, Li Jian needed to quickly familiarize himself with the use of this type of warship and its combat method, and find likely existing defects.
In the near future, they would have other technology to continue applying to this spaceship, and only then would it be time for this warship to be truly mass-equipped to the Space Force.
In the command cockpit of Punisher, Li Jian and several command headquarters members were all lying in the gray viscous nano buffer at this moment.
He could not help but secretly sigh in his heart: As expected, it was much inferior to the buffer on Conqueror.
At least the buffer there did not give a sticky feeling and was transparent.
“Maintain formation shape, target Ganymede, depart!”
With his order issued, the tail of Punisher immediately erupted with a massive plasma tail flame.
The entire fleet’s thrust also reached maximum in this instant, straight approaching the once unimaginable 350G gravity threshold.
7 minutes later, the fleet stopped accelerating.
At this time, the entire fleet’s speed had already reached 1500 kilometers per second.
