Chapter 18: The Trial

Two weeks passed quickly, and with each passing day, the base changed its appearance by one point.

The six 500,000-kilowatt nuclear power units were moved out of their dusty warehouses, glowing with light and heat again; the factories that had been abandoned for years were also turned back on their assembly lines.

The peak power consumption of the entire base even reached 10 million watts, equivalent to one-half of Shanghai! You know, Shanghai has a population of 20 million, but only 50,000 here!

Most of the electricity is used for industrial production, and the railroads are running at full capacity almost every moment. Tens of thousands of tons of titanium, uranium, iron, combustible ice, silicon and other minerals are brought in by high-speed trains.

Within a few hours, these minerals are turned into various kinds of raw materials, which are then put into new production.

Oliver's heart is filled with a sense of accomplishment as he watches the work in hand gradually take shape.

Management of a base, not only production is enough, the most critical, or "people".

People are a very complex contradiction, 50,000 people in the base, there are selfless, there are selfish, there are smart, there are stupid, there are positive, there are also negative. For these various kinds of people, Oliver tried to find ways to mobilize their deepest hopes, so that all of them would twist together and join in the production.

In order to achieve this effect, Oliver memorized almost everyone's name, according to each person's personality characteristics to the right medicine. He is a super human, although the memory is very strong, the face of such a huge amount of data is also tired enough, but there is no way, the only way people can get through this difficult time is to work together.

One particular category of people is the criminal element in the base. The most vicious were killed on the day of the riot, the rest are guilty, but not to death.

These people are very troublesome, a total of less than a thousand points, how to deal with them is a big problem. Everyone in the base is a valuable asset, and the total population is only a little over 50,000, so we can't kill them all, right?

This day, Oliver hosted a special meeting, the theme of the meeting is to discuss how to deal with these criminals.

"Now, there are two main categories of crime in our base, the first is the original death row inmates. There is also a part of the people who took advantage of the explosion of the Earth to commit treason." Oliver stood at the front of the meeting, "We don't have that much time to make laws at the moment, but we should also discuss a simple strategy."

"In the words of our Earth Alliance, merit must be rewarded in order to encourage capable people to work hard; guilty must be punished in order to punish evil people who dare not act presumptuously. Rewarding good and punishing evil are two sides of the same coin, and only when the two are combined without bias can the stability of the base be achieved and the best social effect be received."

Death row inmates on the base have always been an unpopular group of people and a historical legacy. On the one hand, some dangerous jobs could not be done without them, and on the other hand, they were criminals and prone to social unrest, so the number was always small, kept at a thousand.

At the end of the rebellion, more than four hundred death row inmates were killed, most of them participated in the riots, but there were also more than two hundred who stayed peaceful.

"For these peaceful death row inmates, they have experienced the test of humanity and should be rewarded." A mechanical engineer said in the meeting, "An old friend of mine was sentenced to death because he accidentally killed a man while on Earth. He has lived in the base for ten years and has been dedicated and peaceful, so it is not too much to say that he has reformed himself."

"They have contributed so much to the base, no merit but also hard work, I think it is right to pardon these people who have turned to goodness."

This proposal was discussed and quickly passed.

The second category is the lighter crimes, such as opportunistic petty theft, these people have committed crimes, but they are minor, so they have less restrictions on personal freedom.

The disciplinary measure for them is "reform through labor", they need additional labor to offset the crime.

The last category is those who committed felonies during the riots. For felons, they are not only imprisoned, but also have to do heavy work.

It is not possible to kill them. The base is short of labor, so how can they be killed? As for human rights, in front of the life and death crisis, who cares about this ...

No one will sympathize with them, even the richest mother of God can not say anything.

A simple meeting ended in this way.

The improvement of the legal aspects can only be carried out later, because the workload in this area is too large, there is really no manpower ah.

"Captain, there is a trial for the rebel leader Calvin at two o'clock this afternoon, please make sure you attend!" When the meeting was finished, such a message appeared in Oliver's phone, sent by his assistant, Miss Yuriko.

He was really too busy, one meeting had just finished, and he had to attend the next one, which had almost become his daily routine now.

"So it's Calvin, this is a must attend." Oliver muttered, replying to Yuriko with another message.

Yuriko was the adopted daughter of Dr. Roman, of Asian descent, and although only twenty years old, was a top physicist. Now that a large number of physics experiments had been called off and she had nothing to do, she had become Oliver's administrative assistant.

From Yuriko, Oliver finally saw what is called workaholic ... in addition to eating, sleeping, all the time to work, without a joke, let alone other entertainment, in the words of Yuriko, "those are is meaningless activities. "

So, between the two people, in addition to work or work. Of course, he himself leaned toward being a workaholic among ...

When he walked into the courtroom, he found that more than thirty jurors had arrived, all leading figures from all walks of life, and after saying hello, casually found a seat.

The laws of the base have not yet been enacted, so a jury system was adopted, with a total of forty jurors from all walks of life working together to determine Calvin's guilt and sentence, and Oliver was one of them.

When people arrived, the trial soon began, Calvin was also brought up, his face puffy, may have suffered some suffering, but his eyes are still clear, his mind intact.

The crowd looked at Calvin with mixed expressions, some even recently joined the "Moon Society", and his evaluation was seriously polarized. Some thought he was a prophet for the entire human race, while others thought he was an outright fraud.

"The suspects have been brought in, the trial begins!" The judge standing at the forefront tapped his gavel. Dressed in militarized attire, he read out the basic facts about Calvin with a serious look.

"Defendant, what do you have to say?"

Calvin stood in his place at the defense table, he ran his hand through his hair and calmly said, "I know what you want to ask me ... Yes, I admit that I killed the man.

"I took advantage of the chaos after the explosion of the Earth to kill David? Sen, David? Ball, and Cashwell. In addition, there are some mid-level officers also killed by me."

As soon as the words left his mouth, the room was stunned, not expecting Calvin to admit so directly.

The jury was pointing at Calvin and discussing among themselves. David? Sen, David? Pol and Cashwell are the three top leaders of the base, respectively in charge of the base's administration, military and economic.

These three died at the hands of Calvin after the explosion of the Earth, so the entire base will be in that period of time in a state of loss of control.

In this way, Calvin's crime is very big!