Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 89 Refugee Team
It took a lot of effort and after a compromise, Yang Yi and Jackson persuaded Maria.

Because her husband was killed by the occupying forces and the granary was burned down before fleeing, Maria resolutely refused to surrender to the occupying forces.It's just that continuing to resist is not a way out, especially those old people, children and wounded, who have reached their limit and may die at any time.

After discussing with other people, Maria divided the refugees into two groups.Most of the women and half of the militia followed her and remained in the desert to continue the resistance.Yang Yi gave Maria enough food to keep them alive for at least a month.If the occupying forces cannot be driven out after a month, the theater command will definitely send troops.The other half of the militia, all the elderly, children and wounded, led by Paul, followed Yang Yi and the others to Dwenk City to surrender to the occupying forces.Although except for a few militiamen who can fight, the other personnel are cumbersome, but only in this way can they look like desperate refugees, will not be suspected by the occupying army, and can enter Dwenk City smoothly.

Before dawn, the two teams set off separately.

Because there are old people, children, and wounded people, and the harsh environment, the temperature during the day is as high as [-] degrees Celsius, and at night it drops below freezing, so the team can only travel in the early morning and evening, so the speed of the team is not fast.After three days, I walked out of the desert and came to the coastal plain area.

Compared with inland deserts, coastal plains are a completely different picture.

Standing outside the windbreak forest that divides the desert and the plain, the neat farmland in front of you can't see the edge at a glance.The criss-cross irrigation canals will be like longitude and latitude lines, dividing the land into 100-meter-square, uniform farmland.The pumping stations every ten kilometers are like chess pieces on this big chessboard.The starry farmsteads, farms and granaries show that these farmlands have their own owners.

Relying on highly automated agricultural equipment, farming is no longer a manual job.

Such a scene is rare in the entire Southern Alpha galaxy.

Thanks to advanced technology, agriculture has long been factoryized.Soilless cultivation technology, artificial light sources, and ecological control systems have freed agriculture from the need for land. The grain produced by a modern grain factory is enough to meet the daily needs of a large city.In the home galaxy, almost all the food that civilians can buy comes from grain factories, and the food cultivated in traditional ways is a luxury that only the rich can afford.The other civilizations of the Milky Way Alliance are similar. Only the top civilization of the Hidden Eldar, which highly respects nature, has retained the traditional farming methods.It can be said that the Human Federation is an exception, and the Shennong planet is even more rare.

The long-term tradition of focusing on the military has made soldiers have an extremely lofty status in the Human Federation.Although after the Fifth Greenwich War, the millennium-long peace and prosperity reduced the social status of soldiers to the lowest point in the third era, the influence of the military is still at its peak, even those federal officials who dislike soldiers Clearly, if the Greenwich War breaks out again, it will be soldiers who stand up to defend the Human Federation and fight against the enemy.As long as the Silicon Phantom Alliance is still entrenched in the Northern Alpha Galaxy, as long as the two kinds of intelligent life require more space in order to reproduce, the threat of war will not dissipate, and the social status of soldiers will not be lowered.

In the Human Federation, soldiers are truly a privileged class.

Although not all soldiers are citizens, compared with civilians, soldiers enjoy many privileges, and thus become the first occupation of civilians.

The existence of the Shennong star is a direct manifestation of the privilege of soldiers.

Of course, Shennong Star can become the granary of the third war zone, and it is cultivated in traditional ways, which is closely related to its unique natural environment.

That is, the carbon dioxide content in Shennong's atmosphere is as high as 5.00%, and the four continents are distributed near the equator with sufficient sunlight. The coastal areas have abundant seasonal rainfall, coupled with perennial high temperatures, which are very suitable for cultivating various high-yielding crops .Because of the extensive use of automated agricultural equipment, production efficiency has been greatly improved, so the production capacity of traditional farming methods is not much lower than that of grain factories.

As for the quality, it is much higher.

Take Dwink City as an example. This small town with less than 150 residents is in charge of 1000 surrounding farms, each with 5000 yuan of farmland.That is to say, less than 15 people are responsible for 200 hectares of farmland, and the food produced each year is enough to support an army of one million people.On the Wild Grass Continent, there are hundreds of small towns like Dwenk City, which produce enough food to feed hundreds of millions of soldiers every year, and consume only 1000 million laborers.Counting the other three continents, the food produced by Shennong Star is enough to support [-] million soldiers every year, while the third war zone only has [-] million soldiers in peacetime, and it will not exceed [-] billion after mobilization in wartime.Even measured by wartime standards, the food produced by Shennong Star is enough to meet [-]% of the consumption of the third war zone, and the labor force is only [-] million.If all these grains are produced by grain factories, millions of laborers will be needed, and the quality of the grains produced cannot be compared with traditional farming.Although the nutritional content is similar, the difference in taste is extremely obvious.

In addition, Shennong star has a lot to do with Zhan Ruilin.

On the way to Dwenk City, Lin Feng told Yang Yi a lot about Shennong, including that after the fifth Greenwich War, Zhan Ruilin almost fought with the federal authorities in order to obtain the jurisdiction of Shennong, and even Things that threaten to withdraw from the Human Federation.

Because Shennong is far away from the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, and the natural environment was not completely destroyed during the occupation by the Silicon Charm Alliance, it only takes some time to restore its original appearance, so the federal authorities hope to classify Shennong as their own and develop it. into a tourist attraction.In addition, the Galactic Alliance also covets the Shennong star, and the Leiling family also proposed that the alliance host the Shennong star, so that the civilization that suffered from the extinction of the war can be rebuilt.After receiving the news, Zhan Ruilin acted decisively, sent ten legions to Shennong Planet before the federal authorities, and demobilized the officers and soldiers of the legions on the spot, and exchanged military merits for land.Because there is a similar law, when soldiers are demobilized, they can exchange their accumulated military merits for living supplies and living space, so the federal authorities have no choice but to admit it secretly.

Because of this, Shennong Xing has today.

In fact, Paul and other colonists who first came to Shennong were forced to move to the Wild Grass Continent after the soldiers from the third war zone arrived.Relatively speaking, among the four continents near the equator, the wild grass continent has the harshest natural environment and is also the least suitable for farming.

Of course, these are all things that happened thousands of years ago.

Although at the beginning, Paul's ancestors, that is, the colonists who first came to Shennong, did not completely obey Zhan Ruilin's arrangement, and some of them rose up to resist, but time changed everything, especially when the third war zone came out later. Some preferential policies of the government have calmed military-civilian conflicts.For example, 800 years ago, after Zhan Ruilin appointed the first chief of staff, the Third Theater Command granted the aborigines a high degree of autonomy and gave them paramilitary treatment. Sold to the third theater, and served as a theater reserve in the war, all the militias in the formation had to unconditionally respond to the war mobilization of the theater command.

It can be said that aborigines like Paul are themselves a privileged class.

Driven by these policies, Shennong has been the most important food production area in the third war zone for hundreds of years, and there has never been a large-scale rebellion.If it is troublesome, it is mainly the interstellar pirates who come to harass from time to time, and many of them have received secret support from other theaters.

That's why, after Shennong was blocked, Mayor Alex mobilized the militia and asked Maria to take the non-combat civilians to the farm for shelter.

Jackson also mentioned that he brought the warrior mercenary group to Shennong to plunder food.

Of course, not to fill his own belly, but to be hired.It's a pity that Jackson didn't know the real identity of his employer.

Before walking out of the windbreak forest, Yang Yi and the others put away their weapons.

The equipment on the farm is all controlled by the optical brain, and no one comes here at ordinary times. Only when it is harvest time, the farmer will come to check the harvest.

The team marched on the field road for less than half an hour when a small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flew over.

After circling a few times over the team, the drone flew away.

Although Yang Yi was a little worried, nothing happened afterwards.Paul didn't say anything nonsense. The unmanned reconnaissance plane was sent by the occupying army. After confirming that it was a refugee team, the occupying army would not launch an attack.That's why Paul asked Yang Yi and the others to put away their weapons.

In the evening, the team arrived outside Dwenk City.

It is not so much a city as it is a very large town.The whole city is surrounded by a city wall about ten meters high, which was built to fight against the pirates who came to loot when the city was built.In the city, all the houses are less than five floors, and the streets are very narrow.It is hard to believe that this is a modern town if not every household has modern means of transportation such as hovercars.

The team came outside the city gate and was stopped by the guards.

Yang Yi and others mixed in the crowd, and Paul came forward to deal with it.In the past two weeks, Paul has ventured back three times in order to buy medicines.

After some negotiation, the guards opened the city gate.

However, the guards did not let the team enter the city on their own, but called a patrol team and led the team to the city hall where refugees were housed.According to Paul, the occupying army will first identify the status of the refugees, and then give corresponding resettlement to the refugees according to their health conditions.Even if you are not sick or in pain, you will be isolated alone.The occupying forces only let the refugees go home after five to ten days of quarantine and observation.

(End of this chapter)