Chapter 277: Spark of the Stars

What we want is their hearts.

We want to ignite, in this vast starfield, a prairie fire called 'Yanhuang Thought'!

When all the civilizations in this starfield become our most steadfast comrades and allies.

When this starfield turns into an unbreakable united front that shares our breath and destiny.

The so-called blockade of the Biteen Empire will become a huge joke!

Old Luo's words made everyone present feel their blood boil.

This is a strategy grander and more sophisticated than mere military conquest.

Use thought to construct a brand-new interstellar civilized community with Yanhuang Civilization at its core!

I understand!

Mao Xin Yang and Brother Han responded in unison, their eyes filled with excitement.

They knew they were about to undertake a great endeavor capable of changing the entire Milky Way Galaxy's layout.

An ideological 'countryside encircling the city' aimed at the Biteen Empire's hegemony officially kicked off at this moment.

After the Yanhuang Civilization's high command formulated the grand strategy of the 'Thought Expedition,' the civilization's resources began to shift toward a new direction.

No longer merely military expansion and technological R&D.

But cultural export and civilization building.

Special units were formed one after another.

Their composition was highly complex, including elite negotiation experts from the Foreign Ministry and technical advisors from the Academy of Sciences,

there were engineering corps from the military, but more were from the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army—Thought Workers who deeply understood and firmly believed in the great leader's thought.

These units were named the 'Civilization Construction and Friendly Mutual Assistance Work Team'.

Their mission was not to conquer, but to help.

The first work teams boarded transport ships laden with various supplies and equipment, heading for the second-level civilizations that had just been liberated from the Silicon-based Union's slavery and were now in chaos and confusion.

The Kara Star System, homeworld of the Mantis People Civilization.

Since a year ago, when they signed the 'Trade and Technology Cooperation Agreement' with Yanhuang Civilization, this place has undergone earth-shaking changes.

With the help of the miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology provided by Yanhuang Civilization, they completely solved the energy crisis that had plagued them for centuries.

Under ecological transformation equipment, their heavily polluted homeworld is regaining vitality.

The Mantis People's standard of living has seen an unprecedented increase.

They are filled with gratitude and awe toward Yanhuang Civilization.

But new problems have also arisen.

The old social structure looks out of place in the face of new productive forces.

A portion of the Mantis People who mastered the new technology began rapidly accumulating wealth, forming a new privileged class.

While most ordinary Mantis People's lives improved, they felt they had fallen into another form of exploitation.

Social contradictions began to quietly grow.

Just as Mantis People's leader Bola was frantically dealing with this.

Yanhuang Civilization's 'Civilization Construction and Friendly Mutual Assistance Work Team' arrived.

The one leading the team was none other than the diplomat who had first made contact with Bola, Yang Wenqing.

But this time, his identity had become 'Chief Advisor of Yanhuang Civilization stationed in the Kara Star System'.

'Chief Bola, long time no see.'

Yang Wenqing's face still bore that warm smile.

'Advisor Yang! You… how did you come here?'

Bola, flattered and surprised, personally welcomed him into his conference hall.

'Come see what difficulties our friends have encountered.'

Yang Wenqing got straight to the point.

After hearing Bola's account of the current social contradictions, Yang Wenqing smiled.

'Chief Bola, the problem you face was already pointed out by our mentor centuries ago as the direction to resolve it.'

He did not give a direct answer, but instead invited Bola and all the high-ranking officials of the Mantis People Civilization,

to attend a 'Thought Learning Seminar' hosted by their work team.

At the seminar,

A Thought Worker from the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army stepped onto the podium.

He did not speak any lofty grand principles.

He simply presented the modern history of Yanhuang Civilization in full via holographic projection before all the Mantis People.

From the oppression of feudal dynasties to the emergence of capitalism.

From the societal upheaval brought by the Industrial Revolution to the ever-sharpening class contradictions.

From the awakening of the proletariat to the great socialist revolution that swept the whole nation.

The Mantis People were shocked to discover that everything they are now experiencing actually has a near-identical counterpart in Yanhuang Civilization's history from several centuries ago.

They could find almost exact shadows of it.

'Comrades, friends.'

After the video finished playing, that Thought Worker stepped forward.

'What you are seeing now is the development of productive forces, which inevitably brings about a transformation of production relations.'

'This is a historical law that no civilization can avoid.'

'How to resolve this contradiction? Shall we let the new privileged class oppress and exploit the broad masses of ordinary people?'

Or should we establish a truly new social system where the people are masters of their own house?

Our mentor, with his life, practiced the second path for us.

Afterwards he began to expound in detail to these mantis people the 'Yanhuang-characteristic socialist theory'.

From the people's representative congress system to the basic economic system with public ownership as the mainstay and multiple forms of ownership economies developing together.

From distribution according to labor to common prosperity.

These, for the mantis people still in the primary stage of capitalism, are completely a brand-new continent never seen before.

They listened, entranced, as if they saw a truly ideal society, without oppression, without exploitation, a perfect society.

"We... we can also establish such a society?"

Bola's voice carried a hint of trembling and longing.

"Of course."

Yang Wenqing stood up, smiling, and answered, "As long as you are willing."

"Our Yanhuang civilization will unreservedly impart to you all our nation-building experience and governance principles."

"We will help you accomplish a thorough social revolution."

"Help you establish your own——"

"——Mantis People SWA!"

"SWA?"

"Yes, a regime jointly composed of workers, peasants, soldiers and all laborers, representing the interests of the broadest masses of the people!"

Yang Wenqing's words were like a spark, instantly igniting the fire in the hearts of all mantis people present.

In the coming months.

Under the full guidance and assistance of the Yanhuang Civilization Work Team.

A vigorous social reform unfolded like wildfire within the mantis people's civilization.

They learned Yanhuang's experience, established trade unions and farmers' associations.

They elected their own people's representatives.

They brought under collective ownership the core means of production generated by new technology.

Finally, in a nationwide referendum, the old parliamentary system was abolished.

A brand-new, with the hammer and sickle as its emblem, the 'Kara Galaxy SWA Socialist Republican Civilization,' was solemnly proclaimed established in the Milky Way Galaxy!

And similar scenes repeatedly unfolded in the territory of the original Silicon-based Union, among those dozen or so second-level civilizations.

One after another, interstellar SWAs full of Yanhuang characteristics sprang up like bamboo shoots after spring rain.

These newborn SWA republican civilizations achieved a high degree of unity with Yanhuang civilization in politics, economy, and culture.

They became the outermost and also the most solid 'red buffer zone' of Yanhuang civilization.

The spark of thought is, at a speed no one can foresee, beginning to form a prairie fire.