Chapter 4179
The Interstellar Council established four departments in one day. But this is not the limit; in the subsequent response process, various problems appeared, forcing the Supreme Intelligence to build five more departments, namely the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Development, and the Ministry of Industry, as well as three independent agencies, namely the Special Agent Agency Rapid Response Team, the Anti-Discrimination Working Group against racial discrimination, and the Efficiency Supervision Affairs Group specifically used to coordinate government departments.
That is to say, within one day, the number of departments in the Interstellar Council changed from 7 to 16, more than doubling.
Because it was established too hastily at the beginning, all the employees of all departments were the Supreme Intelligence alone. But as there were more and more departments, doing this, others would definitely not be happy, especially carbon-based lives.
If there were only 10 departments, it wouldn't be impossible for you to occupy two or three. But 9 of the 16 departments are you, which is indeed a bit too much. The Shi'ar Empire is even more noisy.
In the past, during the heyday, I could not care about it, just guarding the Grand Portal and living my life. But now no one's life is easy. The landlord's family has no surplus food. You occupy so many alone, is it like words?
So finally they discussed it, and it was still according to the original mode. However, the Supreme Intelligence left a mind, and still wanted to be the minister of two departments, one is the Ministry of Transport, and the other is the Ministry of Labor. The Skrull Empire occupied four, and the Shi'ar Empire occupied three.
In this way, the new departments are about the same. But with more departments, various new problems will appear, such as poor cooperation, such as someone taking the opportunity to fish for money. And the ministers of various departments are fighting with each other, and no one is willing to divide their power. The old minister wants to hollow out the new minister, the new minister wants to grab a piece of meat, and for a time, they fought in the dark.
Even the standing secretaries who are robots were involved. After all, politics is determined by the butt. The minister is up, if you don't follow, then aren't there plenty of robots?
Robots have no ambition, but their duties themselves require them to complete their work in a specific position. If the position is lost, the work cannot be completed. So in order to protect the butt, they have to bite the bullet and go up.
The standing bodies were almost all involved, either standing in line or dying. And standing in line is a very complex thing, not only to look at the race, but also to look at the party, and the nepotism between each other. A slight carelessness, a wrong step, and it will be ruined.
The Supreme Intelligence thinning out power can indeed let them check and balance each other. But since ancient times, the alias of check and balance is called redundant soldiers and redundant expenses. When the power in everyone's hands drops to the point where it is very difficult to protect themselves, they must fight with their lives.
Greed is terrible, but even more terrible is the will to survive. The Supreme Intelligence doing this is equivalent to turning their greed for power, which was not much originally, into a desire to survive that must be fought. That stable, bright, and beautiful political field will definitely become a fighting arena. The pity is that the emperors who played with checks and balances throughout the ages finally checked and balanced themselves.
Although the nominal emperor is now Strange, he doesn't care about things at all. And the manager who really has power is the Supreme Intelligence. So he found that the situation was not only not contained, but became more and more serious.
In the past, the approval of funds was only constrained by the Ministry of Finance; now, at least four or five departments are turning around. Everyone is stuck very strictly, everyone has special requirements, and it simply cannot be passed.
The Supreme Intelligence is not stupid either; he immediately realized: power is limited, but people's desire to exercise power is infinite; it can even be said that the smaller the power, the greater the power people have to exercise their desires, which is the so-called "holding a chicken feather as an arrow."
Because the power is really too small, only by constantly exaggerating and putting forward various strange and difficult requirements can they show that they have power. They must bluff to protect themselves. And everyone is doing this, which naturally leads to nothing being done.
An application submitted by a department is inevitably unable to be approved. Because if it is approved, the other party might feel that you have no actual power and are easy to deal with, and then there will be trouble. And if it is not approved, everyone will feel that you are difficult to deal with, and they won't come to mess with you.
Therefore, the consequence of political bloating is inevitably the stagnation of policy implementation. And because the government is paralyzed, but there are things to do, then only new departments can be established. But new departments will divide power, leading to others being more nervous, so they will hold on to the power in their hands more tightly, not giving anyone a chance, and they won't implement anything. Almost all the end of the dynasty died like this.
In the short week since Strange came, the Interstellar Council has completed the political process of humans for hundreds or thousands of years, evolving from an ignorant infant to an old man who is dying, and time is like being accelerated.
And very unfortunately, after reaching this stage, there will be another qualitative change. People finally found that instead of holding on to their own power, it is better to block the way of those who come later. As long as there are no newcomers, it is not bad to hold on to what you have and die of old age.
So, the Legal Department started to study the law, the Interstellar Court fully cooperated, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Development responded actively, and even the special agent group acted according to the rules, as if everyone was tacitly adding bricks and tiles to something.
In a place where the Supreme Intelligence didn't pay attention, a brand-new Interstellar Code was released. And the length of this Interstellar Code is 40 million times that of the previous version, detailing every link of every process. However, it was all written in English.
And by the time the Supreme Intelligence discovered it, the matter had become: everyone could naturally not do anything, because they were acting according to the law. The law stipulates that they can be so irresponsible, and there is no problem with the process.
Even if some are too outrageous and will be arrested by the law, the law itself is ambiguous, and it is not too much to explain it as any meaning. As long as you find a good lawyer, you can instead make the person investigating blush and have a thick neck.
So, the first to find interstellar employment opportunities were not human engineers and scientists, nor the most powerful superheroes, but Earth litigation sticks.
When they heard that aliens wanted to hire them to go to outer space to fight lawsuits, they were still very uneasy and specifically asked for a code to observe. After reading two pages, they were completely relieved, and the rest of the parts didn't even need to be read; they could know what was written in the subsequent articles even with their eyes closed.
Lawyers from Earth don't even need to change the language, and the plaintiff and defendant don't need a translator, and even the judge and jury speak authentic London accents. And because there are many staff from the Shi'ar Empire, opening and closing their mouths is "Queen," isn't this going home?
Many people might be confused: the interstellar society has developed for so many years, how can it be worse than the human modern society that has only developed for a few hundred years?
But in fact, humans are a very unique case in the universe, which can be said to be unique and only one family.
The development process of the homes of all politicians who can be seen in the Interstellar Council is about the same: first, there is a planet with a natural environment that is not bad, there can be no natural disasters within a million years, the born race cannot have fatal defects, and can achieve unification in the same era after the basic gene development is completed, and the efficiency of the ruling regime is just not bad, and then develop at high speed within a few thousand years, without being disturbed during the period, and luckily point out the super-light-speed engine themselves, or come into contact with, or can get the way of super-light technology, and then open the interstellar era all the way.
It is not difficult to see that this is the normal development process of an advanced civilization capable of interstellar colonization. Maybe some people will also feel that this is too idealized, but in fact, this is a survivor bias.
The life born in the universe is countless, and the civilizations developed are countless. And all members of advanced civilizations who can come to the Interstellar Council to work may be the lucky ones among trillions of civilizations. This is like, everyone you see on the train has bought a ticket, and of course, you won't hear stories from them about how hard it is to buy a train ticket.
And the fact is, as long as one link cannot be done, such as poor gene development, such as the speed of unification is too slow, such as being discovered by other advanced civilizations too early, or can't point out super-light-speed technology, and can't come into contact with the way, or even encounter inexplicable natural disasters, or get involved in some conspiracies, they will die directly.
And humans are the only ones who have serious gene development defects, have never experienced a unification era in history, have had many capable people who have long been concerned by interstellar society, and until more than ten years ago, couldn't touch the threshold of super-light-speed engines, but can sit and talk with this group of normal advanced civilizations today.
This is like the Wolf of Wall Street breaking into a primitive tribe. That's right, this metaphor is not reversed, and the fact is indeed like this. Although Earth is called a cosmic greenhouse, in fact, these other advanced civilizations are flowers in a greenhouse. Humans are different. If they hadn't rotted in terms of rot, they couldn't have sat at the same table with the public with such a primitive development degree.
So, the essence of human civilization is not necessarily essence, but the dross must be dross, which cannot play a good leading role, but the ability to drag the hind legs is superb, cannot create benign competition, and is best at everyone comparing rot together. Other civilizations spreading culture is called edification, and human spreading culture is equivalent to infection.
It can only be said that this error book of human history that only makes mistakes and does not change is destined to have only two endings: either become an interstellar forbidden book, or become a new Bible.
It is a pity that the person with the most ability to ban this book missed the best window period, and because he completely failed to understand how rotten humans can be, he lacked the due awe and let the situation become so uncontrollable.
However, this is not the end. After all, there are only legends of humans circulating in the universe, and humans haven't even joined this game yet.
"What did you say?" The Supreme Intelligence looked at the Minister of Development, feeling that all his threads crashed for a second, "Say it again?"
"After careful consideration by multiple departments of the Council, we believe that the proposal to sell the Council Star is feasible and can bring many benefits, alleviating the problems currently faced by the Council. There are no obstacles in terms of law, so it might be troublesome for you to ask the Speaker to pass the joint application we submitted..."
"You mean, you want to sell this planet under our feet? Is that right?"
"Yes, because this is indeed the best proposal to deal with the current situation. We..."
Before he finished speaking, what appeared before his eyes was the Supreme Intelligence's fist the size of a sandbag.
"Bang!"
"Hey, Secretary-General, what are you doing?!" Strange, who had just walked out of the office, was stunned, and he said, "Is there anything that can't be said properly? That is your colleague, violent behavior is undesirable!"
The Supreme Intelligence gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, Sorcerer Supreme."
?? Electronic life swings fists, Sorcerer Supreme talks about civilization, crazy, it's good to be crazy.
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