Chapter 233: Power Differentiation_1

Because the Solar System State had the initiative, its armed forces were the most formidable.

The four fleets with over three thousand five hundred warships, the Solar System alone monopolized one thousand five hundred, now the dominant space power within the Solar System.

Number Three said, "There are many times when I also feel confused. The number of human warships is more than three times that of the Three-body fleet, and a third faster in speed.

"Are we truly capable of defeating them? But then I remember the advice you gave before hibernation, as well as our continued inability to decipher the Trisolarians' Sophon technology.

"That's when I gradually calm down! There are many others like me, all of whom without exception have been ostracized by the mainstream forces of the Solar System State.

"I used the power in my hands to protect them, and now Guanghan City and Yinghuo City are recognized as remote areas in the Solar System State.

"I am the de facto ruler here, and the residents of these two cities have always strictly demanded of themselves not to be beguiled by the triumphalism, actively preparing for war.

"Some even call us the 'Ascetic Faction,' requiring ourselves to be overly stringent as the ancient ascetics were."

Number Three's uncertainty was inevitable, after all, the entire human world was conveying one message: Humanity is really awesome now!

In a situation where everyone thinks this way, how many can remain unaffected?

Jiang Yu sighed, "You've had it hard. This only proves again that only a minority of humanity is awake, the majority are blind followers and daydreamers."

Number Three exhaled a breath of murky air, "Seeing you awake makes me feel that all my efforts have not been in vain!"

Then Number Three began to describe the current power structure of the Solar System State. When Jiang Yu entered hibernation, the power structure of the Solar System State consisted only of the simple Wallfacer Power and the Governor's power.

Wallfacer Power was represented by Number Three, while the Governor's power included the Governor and his subordinate government forces.

The Governor was responsible for daily management, development, and the implementation of the Wallfacer Project.

Wallfacer Power was in charge of supervision, as well as appointments and dismissals of major officials.

By the time the fifth Governor took office, life in Earth's underground city had become quite comfortable, and the Solar System State gradually found it difficult to offer much higher welfare than Earth, so the population growth of the Solar System State began to slow down.

However, by this time, the Solar System State already had a sufficient population base, and its own birth rate was enough to meet the population needs of the Solar System State.

At the same time, as the welfare on Earth improved, many people could live happily without working.

This was not possible in the Solar System State, because both the Solar System State and the PDC's space forces believed that everyone in space had to contribute their effort, and this was not a place for idlers!

So the residents of the Solar System State began to "flow back" for the first time, clamoring to join Earth International.

In order to prevent a massive outflow of population, the Governor's management policies started to loosen step by step, which gradually led the lower-class citizens to slacken.

Additionally, as a political entity of nearly two hundred years, the Solar System State inevitably developed a complex system of powers.

To gain the support of the residents for their own factions, they all promised that upon their rise to power, they would give even more generous benefits to everyone.

Striving for progress was no longer the mainstream of the era, and many noble qualities seemed out of place.

Along with the rapid expansion of the Solar System State's power, people's expectations inflated as well, and many now believed that Humanity was an invincible existence in the universe!

Under such ideological guidance, the Trisolaran crisis had faded to an extreme minimal point.

Since the external enemies had become "a pushover," humanity shifted its main energy to infighting.

Until thirty years ago, the current Governor took office and, after a series of power struggles, completely abrogated the laws mandating that the Solar System State must carry out the Wallfacing Project.

This marked the complete marginalization of Jiang Yu's power in the Solar System State, and a new power structure began to take hold.

Within just thirty years, the power within the Solar System State gradually diversified.

The modern Solar System State is primarily composed of three powers, the strongest of which is the "New Faction," represented by the current Governor, Gu Cheng.

The formation of the "New Faction" had a great deal to do with the reforms pushed by Jiang Yu before his hibernation.

Most of the political forces in the new colonies were nobility without familial backgrounds; they naturally banded together for support.

Later, the descendants of individuals like Bai Xiao began to engage in politics, and their title of "descendants of human heroes" quickly unified these new elites.

The current Governor, Gu Cheng, is the son of Gu Kai, who fled to the deep mountains to avoid persecution by the PDC.

Descendants of heroes like Gu Kai and Bai Tianyue woke up from hibernation one after another, half a century after Jiang Yu went into hibernation.

After receiving the most advanced medical treatment, they were considered middle-aged by the Solar System State's standards.

These individuals, free of past burdens, mostly founded new families and led fairly content second halves of their lives.

After their descendants began to enter the political arena, they clicked immediately with the "New Faction," addressing the faction's lack of depth and swiftly becoming its main leaders.

In contrast, the descendants of people like Beck, Burton, and Bil were known as the "Old Faction."

This group's power had been extensively weakened during the governance eras of Wang Wenyang to Tao Jingxing, but they always maintained their presence.

After all, even with a fair and just assessment system, they could quickly leverage their familial advantages to help their members adapt to the new system.

Their power was deeply entrenched, but due to internal strife within the "Old Faction" itself, their strength was slightly inferior to the "New Faction."

Within the "Old Faction," Beck's descendants represented the interests of merchants, Burton's stood for the interests of the first generation of politicians from the Sun Nation, and Bil's descendants represented the interests of technological power.

This made it impossible for the "Old Faction's" power to be united, sometimes allowing Gu Cheng to employ minor strategies to make them restrain each other.

These two factions were the mainstream forces of the current Sun Nation, with the "New Faction" simply not supporting the continuation of the Solar System State's service for the Wallfacing Project.

However, among the "Old Faction," Beck's descendants were clearly opposed to the Wallfacing Project and the Wallfacer Power.

Because in a relatively centralized system of power, the power of merchants could not shake that of the government, which was detrimental to their development.

Other powers were like Gu Cheng, neither supporting nor opposing, given that Jiang Yu is regarded as a guide for the Solar System State in textbooks and as long as there were no actual conflicts of interest, nobody wanted to openly rupture relations.

The third force within the Solar System State were descendants of Tao Jingxing and Number Three, explicitly expressing support for the Wallfacing Project. However, since the general public had grown complacent, this faction lacked support from the masses and was the weakest force.

Number Three finally said, "Because the fact that you've awakened has long been an open secret, the 'New Faction' and 'Old Faction' have come together to convene this year's federal high-level meeting in advance.

"I suspect they want to take advantage of your current weakness to completely strip you of your power."