Chapter 277: Seizing the Right Moment is the Kingly Way_1

The public's curses at Jiang Yu are becoming increasingly conspiratorial, with quite a few ulterior-minded individuals believing that Jiang Yu has already surrendered to the Trisolarans.

This great migration and the construction on the Outer Planetary lands are but Jiang Yu creating living space for the Trisolarans' masters who have not yet arrived in the Solar System.

Many people even assert with confidence that among those Earthlings deceived into labor on the Outer Planets, many will die from the compulsory labor.

Even if they don't die of exhaustion, once the Trisolarans arrive, all of them will be executed.

These people speak with such conviction about how Jiang Yu detains these people, how he mistreats them, and how he assigns them impossible task quotas!

They talk as if they had seen it with their own eyes, yet the truth is, the people duped by Jiang Yu were only a group transported from Desert North Farm to Guanghan City, and beyond that, nobody has really moved.

Yet this does not stop the public's sympathy for those trapped at Desert North Farm, although much of this sympathy is tinged with schadenfreude.

At the same time, everyone breathes a sigh of relief that they did not go to Desert North Farm during the previous protest.

When Jiang Yu heard these remarks, he knew they must be the PDC's way of diverting everyone's attention.

With millions stranded at Desert North Farm, the PDC, considering its failure to provide relief, only faces off with a few security robots on the outskirts of the farm.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one noticed their inaction, they quickly shifted everyone's attention to the Solar System State.

They also induced a feeling of relief in the masses, instilling a sense of superiority in their minds.

Humans are such a strange species; many are no longer concerned about their countrymen being forcibly detained by Jiang Yu but feel a sense of satisfaction after learning their own fates are much better than those trapped.

Additionally, due to the diluted notion of family among Earthlings nowadays, hardly anyone actively suggests going to rescue their relatives.

With the general public indifferent to the rescue efforts, why would the PDC take it seriously under the military threat of Solar System State?

Logic and Detective Shi once lamented that when countrymen are captured, they should be rescued at all costs!

However, both knew that even if everyone else surrendered to the Trisolarans, Jiang Yu would never surrender.

Jiang Yu's actions must have his own purposes, so the two men never questioned his methods but found the PDC's ostrich-like approach both ridiculous and sad!

No matter what, according to PDC statistics, nearly seventy million were trapped in Desert North Farm, never to be heard from again.

Many people spontaneously organized to pay tribute and mourn for these compatriots.

What they didn't know was that at that moment, Desert North Farm was bustling with excitement.

"Five of J! Calling for a point!"

The other four looked towards his "opposite," who after inspecting his hand for a while, sighed, "I can't follow."

"Haha, score a point! A four!"

The shouts of the card players echoed one after another, surrounded by a circle of onlookers.

Around the chessboard, the pool tables, the game machines, crowds of people were gathered.

Due to the limited entertainment resources, the rule was established: whoever loses yields their spot for the next round.

Initially, when Jiang Yu ordered all their electronic devices to be confiscated, living without internet access was like a death sentence for them!

But within days, they were drawn to these face-to-face modes of entertainment and quickly became addicted.

Before, people were playing by themselves; where was the fun in that?

What surprised Jiang Yu was that many people had begun to fall in love freely!

Uncertainty about the future and fear of what's to come have a way of driving people to seek solace in each other's company.

Unbeknownst to him, cutting off their internet access led them to rediscover normal human interactions.

Thereupon, Guanghan City and Yinghuo City started manufacturing playing cards, chess, and other such antiquated entertainment products on an expedited basis.

They also had to produce a massive amount of contraceptives, lest the children start running around like wildfire.

The entire Solar System State began building basketball, soccer, and badminton courts in great numbers, determined to expend more of the idle population's energy.

With Desert North Farm's development of the newly leased two million square kilometers of desert, thousands were selected as the first group of Pioneers.

They were assigned to their own single dormitories, received wages, and obtained a certain degree of personal freedom, which made everyone envious, vying for the next batch of job opportunities.

Having had the experience of imprisonment, most people had already forgotten their previous lives of being waited on hand and foot and began to have a strong desire for work.

The riots and sustained resistance Jiang Yu had worried about did not occur; after experiencing despair, people cherish their lives greatly, even if there is a glimmer of hope for the future.

Moreover, the education they received from childhood was how to be compliant citizens.

In other words, the vast majority had accepted the rule of the Solar System State.

The few resisters were among the first Jiang Yu prioritized for transportation to Jupiter, and they would become the first Pioneers.

What now troubled Jiang Yu most was that the transport capacity of the entire human world was too weak.

Jupiter's transport capacity was the largest, yet it was only around 1.56 million.

As for places like Mars and Earth, it goes without saying, their long-distance transport capacity was only around 200,000 to 300,000, and the short-distance capacity was about the same.

Usually, this transport capacity was sufficient, even a bit surplus, but Jiang Yu's plan was complicated by the frail transport capacity, adding many uncontrollable factors.

According to the Governing Council's estimates, even if the production of passenger spacecraft was ramped up now, it would take six to eight years to completely move the populations of Earth, the Moon, and Mars to Jupiter.

As for the migration from Jupiter to Saturn and Uranus, that depended on the construction of the colonies there.

Actually, speaking of serving labor, most positions did not involve manual labor but rather supervising or operating robots.

A portion of the people, after undergoing training, became engineers for repairing robots.

To suddenly expand colonies to accommodate so many people, there were clearly not enough construction robots; likewise, there were not enough security robots on Earth.

Thus, Jupiter was not only producing passenger spacecraft in large quantities but was also producing robots in large quantities.

Jiang Yu was most aware that his plan to plunder the population was tacitly acknowledged by the international community only because it was camouflaged by the Three-body crisis.

If it were two or three years later, after the Trisolaris crisis had been resolved, the plan would never have succeeded.

This was also why Jiang Yu launched this operation as soon as he took over the reins of power when the Governing Council was still somewhat inexperienced.

Once everyone came to their senses and began to restore their own armed forces, the Solar System State's current undeniable military deterrence would gradually weaken.

Many things needed to be done amidst this chaos to achieve the desired outcomes.

The longer the Great Migration Plan was delayed, the more variables there would be.

To increase transport capacity, Jiang Yu ordered the construction of new production lines for spacecraft and robots.

The large number of laborers from the three fleets were forcibly assigned to work positions.

In their hearts, these people felt quite bitter; a year ago, the Space City they were living in belonged to the three fleets, but now it had become the asset of the Solar System State.

The space farms and factories where they labored also used to be assets of the three fleets, but now they were all owned by the Solar System State.

What was more tragic was that even they themselves now belonged to the Solar System State.

With the sustained investment in the new production lines from now on, the migration plan's timeline should be reduced by about half.

Once all the people have been transported to Jupiter, even if Earth wants them back, they will no longer be able to return.

Such large industrial investments, even for the wealthiest Solar System State, were not a small amount of money.

Therefore, Jiang Yu let Bai Pingjun and the backers of Ai Wei bear most of the costs, and the consortiums, not being fools, naturally refused.

But Jiang Yu insisted that this was also part of the escape plan, a measure to draw everyone's attention.

Only then did the consortiums reluctantly start to invest.

Jiang Yu reasoned with them; they were all leaving the Solar System, and the money would be useless once it left the Solar System!

Thinking it over, they became much more willing to spend the money.

After they had spent nearly all their resources, Jiang Yu felt it was time to make the cut.