Volume One, Chapter One Hundred Twelve: Veiling the Heavens

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Chapter 112: Shrouding the Heavens

Tu Zhe nodded and continued his address.

“Therefore, this planet is not Son of Heaven Star. Its proper name should be—Great Harmony Star.”

Another wave of cheers rose from below.

“Great Harmony! Great Harmony! Great Harmony!”

Tu Zhe continued with his third point.

“We must establish an efficient and responsible government, as well as a civil service system. Civil servants exist only to serve the people. Under no circumstances can we allow civil servants to become merely another name for princes and aristocrats. As for the structure, operation, and other fundamental aspects of government institutions, we must pool our collective wisdom and fully draw upon everyone’s intelligence and talent. We must build our government into one that serves the majority and seeks the welfare of the majority.”

And so on.

It was nothing more than the utopia Tu Zhe had always carried in his heart. Now that the pig butcher had seized power, he naturally wanted to realize his dreams.

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Tu Zhe’s speech consisted of several more points, which need not be recounted here.

During the proceedings, in order to lift the spirits of the people of Great Harmony Star and help them emerge from their grief and despair to devote themselves to the fervent construction of the Great Harmony world, Tu Zhe, Chu Tiange, and the Three Star Lords joined forces to cast a grand spell.

They moved an entire mountain from the Ten Thousand Mountains across space, transformed it into whatever shapes they pleased, and in an instant raised a city in the center of the plains capable of housing more than a hundred million people.

It took the group an entire day to refine the city before they were able to establish its initial form.

The layout of the entire city followed Tu Zhe’s instructions exactly, copying the arrangement of ancient Chang’an. There was an outer city, an inner city, an imperial city, an eastern market, a western market, and numerous grand gardens.

The imperial city had originally been where the emperor lived. Since they had no emperor, it was converted directly into the offices of the State Council.

Once Chang’an City was more or less complete, they organized everyone’s entry, first settling them in, then issuing temporary laws one by one so that the economy and daily life could quickly return to normal.

Exhausted half to death, Tu Zhe and the others were finally able to sit quietly in the Hall of Supreme Polarity.

Since Chu Tiange had been appointed premier of the provisional government, he was responsible for arranging all matters, large and small, and Tu Zhe no longer needed to attend to everything personally.

No joke—being the head of state was truly no ordinary hardship. In a country awaiting reconstruction, at least there was usually some foundation left behind. Here, they had absolutely nothing. Everything had to be rebuilt from scratch.

Rebuilding was rebuilding. They had time, didn’t they?

The problem was that although they could organize hunting parties for food, this damn planet had very few wild beasts left to hunt, and there were hardly any edible fruits or vegetables to fill their stomachs.

Even if that was not yet their most urgent concern, scraping by for half a year or a year would not be an insurmountable problem.

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The greatest problem was still the establishment of the government’s administrative machinery. These damn bandits did not even understand what democracy truly meant.

You told them there would be elections, and they would ask, “What do we need elections for? If you say so-and-so is taking such-and-such position, is there anyone who would dare not listen?”

The construction of democracy and the rule of law would be a long and arduous road.

With a sigh, Tu Zhe took countless celestial treasures from his Sumeru ring and had Long Er and the others distribute them among the residential districts, allowing the common people to enjoy the same food as the Sons of Heaven.

Damn it, improving the people’s physical condition was absolutely essential. The speed of their cultivation was one thing, but the real issue was the supply of soldiers. Brother, he had a very strong sense of danger, all right?

Without a powerful armed force, how could they defend the hard-won Great Harmony world?

While he was lost in thought, he suddenly remembered something that had not yet been done. He immediately cursed, breaking into a cold sweat.

Damn it, where was this place?

Beside the Andromeda Galaxy!

Was this even their territory?

Even if the great powers of Andromeda looked down on this wretched planet, that did not mean he could simply occupy it with a clear conscience.

Besides, even if they had not yet discovered that the planet had been occupied by outsiders, would the Northern Pole Sky Spear and his men let the matter rest? Would they not pursue them here while they had the chance?

Even if Sky Spear needed to make some diplomatic efforts to obtain Andromeda’s permission before entering, that probably would not be too difficult.

In the diplomacy between two great star systems, could the lives of a few—well, even tens of millions—of bandits truly matter more than the relationship between two great realms? Would anyone need to give serious consideration to the sanctity of life before sacrificing them?

What utter nonsense.

Suppose Andromeda refused to let the Northern Pole army enter and hunt them down. That would more likely mean they were afraid the Northern Pole forces would use bandit suppression and counterterrorism as an excuse to enter and then refuse to leave.

But could he be certain Andromeda had such concerns?

Or was the power of the Northern Pole truly worth Andromeda’s apprehension and vigilance?

Taking it a step further, perhaps the two great realms each harbored ulterior motives. One wanted to use this opportunity to enter, while the other wanted to use the bandits’ exile to restrain its rival. It would then come down to which side could outmaneuver the other. That possibility could not be ruled out.

But in that case, wasn’t his role rather similar to that of Bin Laden?

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And what had Bin Laden’s final fate been? Hadn’t someone simply run a hand across his throat—slash?

The truth was, the Great Harmony world he intended to build—yes, damn it, one could call it a utopia—needed a relatively stable environment in its surroundings, didn’t it?

Therefore, for the time being, the activities of this hidden planet would not be made public, and the name Great Harmony would remain undisclosed. A hidden dragon dwelling in the abyss—that was the idea, wasn’t it? What was that? You think he was secretly accumulating strength and fattening himself up? Just try saying that again and see how angry he got. Ha!

Thus, the first priority for Great Harmony Star was to quickly cover the planet with a barrier and conceal the secrets of heaven, making it impossible for those ill-intentioned people to trace them.

Only after that would their second priority be to improve the quality of the population and raise their level of cultivation.

They had to properly balance stability and development. Stability was the prerequisite for development, wasn’t it?

And so Tu Zhe, the newly appointed President of Great Harmony Star, hurriedly flew to an altitude of ten thousand kilometers above the planet. He formed a series of hand seals, muttered incantations, and summoned countless meteors to move around Great Harmony Star in synchronous and parallel orbits.

He also summoned several comets larger than Great Harmony Star itself, shattered them directly, and transformed them into dense clouds that blocked all outside perception and detection of the planet.

In other words, from that moment onward, Great Harmony Star was submerged in an immeasurable meteor shower and endless clouds. It could not be seen by the naked eye, entered by spiritual sense, or calculated through the secrets of heaven.

Only then did President Tu Zhe finally let out a long breath of relief.

The security problem was essentially solved.

Yet its solution brought problems of its own.

Great Harmony Star had possessed little light to begin with, and now it suddenly became even darker, almost as though day itself had vanished. This directly affected the people’s mood, and even more directly affected plant photosynthesis and the modern agriculture they were about to develop.

Fortunately, the boundless clouds formed from the comets would bring frequent rainfall to Great Harmony Star. The tremendous rains would create more great rivers, lakes, and waterways, and before long would even form oceans, bringing with them an abundance of marine life.

But it seemed that there might be somewhat too many clouds. Continuous, uninterrupted rain was not necessarily a good thing, was it? Were they going to turn this into a prehistoric world?

If so, they might as well stop doing anything else and organize the entire population to fight floods and provide disaster relief every single day.

Could it be that they would have to experience another Great Yu controlling the floods?

No!

Absolutely not!

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