Chapter 1221
Lao Xia's Offspring Classification Pool
Chapter 1221 Lao Xia's Offspring Classification Pool
The mountain wind swept across the battlefield, and smoke still rose from the ruins of the Black Fortress in the distance. Perturabo stood in front of Xia Xiu, and after a moment of silence, finally spoke the words that had been weighing on his heart for many years.
“Throughout my life, I have been used as a tool by him, but he has never known my value. He has never been able to fully utilize my talents, nor has he been able to look at his fellow countrymen struggling at the bottom of society. We could have governed the world of Lohos much better, but he chose the most foolish approach.”
"Damekos talks about engineering, order, machinery, and great city-states, but in the end he still can't get rid of this stupid and backward system."
“He made workers work the longest hours, and even children could be registered as laborers to be assigned. The dead were used as fuel and recycled materials.”
"He is neither capable nor qualified to manage a civilization. He is essentially a mediocre person who only knows how to create a cannibalistic world that devours people and keeps spitting out cannonballs and city walls."
“When I realized this, I knew that Lohos could not continue to be in his hands—the world needed a more standardized and civilized system of governance.”
Xia Xiu then asked at the opportune moment, "If you overthrow his rule, you wouldn't kill him, would you?"
Perturaber: "..."
"Ideally, if things go smoothly after overthrowing his rule, I would simply imprison him without too many casualties."
Perturaber then added:
"Of course, since he chose to resist, he was prepared to face death—both for him and for myself. You don't need to worry, his death will not make me resent you. In fact, his death was related to the thing he made himself. He was killed by his own actions."
At this point, Pertura slowly raised his head, his gaze falling on Xia Xiu. His voice was low, yet it carried a resolute tone that had been suppressed for too long and was finally coming to fruition.
"Moreover, as I said before, he simply couldn't see my true value, but now, I've found someone who can truly see my value."
Xia Xiu did not respond immediately after hearing this.
He just looked at the child in front of him, and at the child's constant use of the word "value," and felt a bit of a headache.
The tenth prince has a typical STEM-oriented mindset. This kind of thinking has its advantages and disadvantages. In this world of four monarchs who are obsessed with observing all emotions, the tenth prince's ideas are a bit dangerous.
After a few moments of silence, he raised his hand and placed it on Perturaber's shoulder.
"Man cannot be merely a means, but must also be regarded as an end in himself."
“Man does not live to be used by anyone, nor does he exist to be a consumable or a cog in a larger structure. A person can have responsibilities, a position, participate in construction, bear war, and fight, give, and sacrifice for what he believes in, but he cannot be reduced to a mere tool because of this.”
"Otherwise, no matter how efficient, rigorous, or in line with engineering and production logic that order may appear on the surface, its foundation must be flawed, because it will ultimately turn into someone like Damekos."
As Xia Xiu spoke, he pressed down on Pertura's right ear and said with a slightly joking tone:
“Perturaber, you don’t want to become like your adoptive father, Damecos, do you?”
Perturabe fell silent, though he couldn't quite grasp the subtle humor in his father's gesture—preventing the words from going in one ear and out the other.
He simply thought it was his father's way of showing affection and didn't think much of it. He was more focused on his father's words. His face didn't show any obvious change, but the tension in his eyes never relaxed.
Xia Xiu could tell that although the child had listened, he had only absorbed part of what was said.
The tenth brother's temper is not much different from the previous stubborn gourd brothers. They are all the kind of people who, once they form a core obsession, cannot be corrected immediately with just a few words. You can make him realize that there is a problem in a certain direction, but it is difficult to make him immediately give up the way of thinking that has accompanied him for many years.
Xia Xiu didn't want to go too far. In this kind of thing, it's enough to stop there. If you really push things too hard, it's easy to make people rebel.
So he naturally changed the subject.
"We can think about these things later. Let's focus on doing what needs to be done right now. I will stay in the Lohos world for a month and help you take over the Lohos world faster and better during this time."
Upon hearing this, Pertua nodded with delight. After all, with a powerful father like his, he would soon be able to take full control of the Lohos world and govern it according to the blueprint he had always envisioned, developing it into the utopia he envisioned.
"I see."
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Time flies.
A month might not be enough time for an ordinary person to completely pull a walled city-state out of the wounds of war, but for the father-son duo of Xia Xiu and Perturaber, it was a piece of cake.
During this month, Xia Xiu did not break the conditions he initially agreed to with Master Ka.
He later set aside a specific time to release the steel offspring monster that had just been taken in by the Spirit Legion, and explained to Perturaber in great detail its basic functions, functional logic, controllable boundaries, and industrial value that it could realize under normal constraints.
When Pertura looked at Master Ka, his feelings were actually a bit complicated.
Because in a sense, this is one of the core reasons why Damekos haphazardly laid out production lines, built factories indiscriminately, and steered the entire Lohos world toward becoming a cannibalistic arms factory.
It was this that caused the Lohos world, which could have maintained its city-state system, to gradually slide into a distorted expansion resembling an industrial city-state.
It is also this that has turned things like production, labor, steel, and factories—things that should serve civilization—into enormous organs that devour civilization itself.
On the other hand, Master Ka is indeed quite different from those old-timers who were brainless and only knew how to corrupt, fight, and spread plagues.
Its underlying nature is that of a mechanized individual.
It's more like a super industrial template-integrated AI that can think and evaluate benefits, except that Damekos led it astray, messing around with the technology and municipal projects, and distorting the development path of the Lohos world.
Ultimately, the cassette player is just a tool. Although it carries the stain of its past, it is still a tool at heart.
Tools, in the hands of Damecos, can lead the world into chimneys and bones; in the hands of Perturapa, they can also be used for good purposes.
Therefore, after several rounds of testing and application planning, Pertura ultimately reached an engineering cooperation agreement with Kaspersky.
Instead of allowing it to expand its armories and siege systems without limit, he chose a development path that suited the unique characteristics of the Lohos world, the Perturaber.
Railways need to be built and mines need to be opened, but they must be planned in sync with smelting, transportation, residential areas, water conservancy, and ecological restoration.
In other words, what Perturapolis aims to do is develop a green industrialized world where green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets.
Xia Xiu remained largely silent on this matter for the past month. He mostly stood on high ground, watching as the ace purifier and industrialization engine, Master Ka, under the guidance of Perturaber, diligently built factories, increased production capacity, and opened circuits to reconstruct the basic industrial system of the entire Lohos world.
The results were indeed surprisingly fast.
A month later, the Lohos world had preliminarily completed basic industrialization in the sense of a medium-sized plane.
The old, chaotic, inefficient mining areas between the mountains, built up by whips and corpses, have been reorganized into clearly defined mining zones, with steam rails and heavy-duty transport lines connecting the main mines and the valley cities.
The inefficient model of relying on groups of slave laborers to carry ore out of the mountains bit by bit has been almost completely eliminated.
The once brutal steel mill, which only spewed black smoke and claimed lives, was reorganized into a multi-level smelting area, assembly area, and power core area. Kasper was responsible for providing the ultra-efficient heavy production framework, while Perturabo conveniently provided standardized drawings, modular structures, and maintenance procedures.
Kasper + Pertura = Savage 6 MAX Edition.
Industrial zones, colleges, theater squares, commercial centers, communities, canals, dams, and so on—these are all buildings that you can photograph casually.
If they wanted, they could easily create a few more wonders.
In fact, in terms of single-round construction capabilities, Xia Xiu's own [World Modulation Mode] and the external genealogy shared production mode of the Multiverse Construction Company are indeed strong enough for a single burst of construction power, laying infrastructure, repairing planes, and setting up production lines very quickly.
However, the problem is also clear: this system essentially still relies on Xia Xiu himself to open a "shared hotspot," which has limitations on signal distance and online time.
He is currently traveling through various realms every day, searching for offspring, cleaning up the contamination of the wombs of the ancient rulers, and dealing with the Anti-Kingdom Alliance and the Second Ottoworld. It is impossible for him to stay in one plane for a long time and continuously act as a mobile base station for all areas under the Court.
Therefore, the value of Perturapa + Kaspersky is particularly high.
One is a top-level engineering coordinator and military planning unit, and the other is a high-performance industrial template and a heavy-duty environmental purifier, which perfectly fills the gap in the Courtyard Legion's current situation that "it is very strong in combat, but its independent production capacity and long-term industrial operation capabilities are not enough."
In other words, the development logic of the courtyard will become:
Xia Xiu was in charge of opening up the map, while his offspring and spiritual legions, such as Pertura and Master Ka, were responsible for quickly converting the conquered planes into stable productive forces and long-term development forces after he left.
This replacement is crucial.
This is because it signifies that the Earthly Court is beginning its transformation from a highly mobile conquest organization into a nascent, sustainably expanding transdimensional regime.
If Lao Xia were to acquire another heir with maxed-out municipal abilities in the future, and be able to truly implement his own Enlightenment Dictatorship into city-states, planes, legions, factories, and civil administration systems, establishing a stable, vertical, and replicable governing order, then the Mortal Court would fill its last gap and truly become a mature, hexagonal institution.
By that point, Xia Xiu had essentially achieved the small goal of secularizing the Kingdom of Heaven, and from the perspective of the elected decision-makers, it was indeed a remarkable achievement.
Xia Xiu actually had a basic classification of his offspring. He roughly divided them into eight categories according to the characteristics of his children and the future planning of the courtyard: military, production, municipal, scientific research, culture, religion, economy, and magic (psychic power).
Currently, the main categories of companies like the eldest, Lupercal, the second, Fenrir, the third, Lionel, and the ninth, Angola, are mostly military.
Of course, the eldest son also has a share in the municipal and economic pools. As the earliest descendant to follow Xia Xiu, the eldest son has relatively strong overall abilities.
The third son, Lionel, is also quite capable in municipal affairs.
The remaining four, Manun and five, Vulcan, can be assigned to the research pool, and both can also be assigned to the production pool. However, their productivity is not as explosive because they are still at the [Dominator] stage.
Magus, the sixth brother, was undoubtedly assigned to the Spells pool, while Forgrim, the seventh brother, with his pretentious and chuunibyou (delusional) air, was specifically assigned to the Culture pool.
Mortalius, the eighth son... well, this kid's features aren't very obvious yet. It would actually be suitable to assign him to the military pool, but the courtyard is certainly not lacking in strong men right now. Xia Xiu still hopes to develop his abilities in other areas.
The tenth brother, Pertura, was naturally assigned to both the production pool and the economy pool.
Xia Xiu is currently stuck with a hand full of military cards. His offspring can all be used as military cards, each one more warlike than the last. What he lacks right now is offspring cards in the areas of municipal administration, religion, and economy.
As for municipal affairs, there's not much to say. There are still too few municipal workers in the courtyard. It's all up to the vice principal and his old cadres. Don't you see that even the little fox is working himself to the bone, and his eye bags are almost bigger than his eyes?
The importance of the economy is no less than that of municipal administration.
If the courtyard truly intends to govern more and more planes in the future, it will be impossible to continue relying on Xia Xiu alone to open up shared domains everywhere, act as a mobile hotspot, and conveniently use his great spirituality to provide life support to each world.
If it weren't for the involvement of eight unusual capital groups and the management of the big boss Eden, relying solely on the purely barbaric conquest route of the courtyard, the world economies that were conquered would have collapsed long ago, and the [Golden Tree] branch would have exploded in no time.
It's not that Xia Xiu doesn't want to do operations, but he simply doesn't have the time. He's been running through maps for almost several years now, and he still hasn't finished running through all the maps of the myriad worlds.
Not to mention the side quests involving other monsters and cosmic bumpkins who covet Terra and humanity.
In addition, the game frequently gives him DLC missions, using him as a tool wherever needed, which not only slows down his map exploration but also hinders the development of his courtyard.
But there's no other way. Heaven itself is spinning like a top, constantly grappling with the madmen and troublemakers of Terra, and also having to deal with Crisis Sequence updates from time to time...
Under such circumstances, it's impossible for Heaven to place such a high-quality corporate slave as the Fourth Swordholder of Heaven in one location.
Working overtime on multiple fronts is the norm for angels in heaven.
Therefore, Xia Xiu is currently in dire need of a progenitor with maxed-out municipal and economic skills to share the operational burden. After all, the eight abnormal capitals are just a temporary measure. Everyone is currently bound together by common interests, and it will be difficult for the Heavenly Kingdom to avoid conflicts with these abnormal capitals in the future.
As for religion...
Neither Xia Xiu nor the Heavenly Kingdom could be said to like religion, let alone the old ways of binding people to idols and altars and maintaining rule through fear, ignorance, and blind faith.
But he also knew very well that in a place like the myriad worlds, laws, armies, and production alone could never manage the hearts of everyone.
Especially when the Court of Heaven truly begins to fully implement the Enlightened Dictatorship across all realms, starts to steadily collect tithes, and begins to bring more and more planes under its vertical control, religion cannot be simply condemned outright.
It must be held in our hands, transformed, tamed, and redefined so that it can serve order, production, enlightened dictatorship, and what the Kingdom of Heaven truly wants people to believe in.
Culture and religion, if these two cards work well together, it's an absolute winning combination.
Therefore, Lao Xia hopes that the Calabash Brothers he finds next will be one of these three pools, and it would be best if he could draw... oh no, find the Municipal Card that he has been longing for. After all, he has too many offspring that he can fight now. What he really needs now is an operational genius.